Dear Darla, I **** your stinkin' guts.

[Tubaman]

Hmmm i kinda like it.

[HooWybrow]

Dude, that rear bumper thingy looks top-notch! Really excited to see where that goes.

[w201e34]

you are a god in the "random rear bumpers onto other cars" category. innovative stuff, mr. hutch. please continue.

[Mr. Pedobear]

Win. Win. Win. This is one of those rare cars that you take to your grave and never forget. Absolutely fantastic.

[rsingh3g]

That thingy is looking great

[Wyatt Lay]

That rear valence looks like it's going to look rad as heel mayn. Looking forward...

[244Brick]

Honda accord bumper 90-93?

[getamongst-it]

Cory that rear valance is looking awesome. i love how you whip together random things like this

[MommysLittleMonster]

Cory,

I love you. And I love your ability to revamp other car parts in these ways. Your use of a CD7 Honda Accord bumper amazes me. <3

[C-Hutch]

Got back into the booth to sling some paint on the bumper, valance, and repaint the hood. The hood is still giving me problems. Something keeps contaminating the paint or paint surface or something. Not sure what's going on with it. But the rear end is almost done and I'm stoked on how it looks so far.

Getting everything apart









Sanding the hood down the first time to get all the weird clearcoat ripples out of it.



Rear bumper and valance





Some big areas on the hood rejected, so I had to pay a visit to the paint store since I didn't have enough to coat the whole hood again.



Continuing to sand and fill the areas that rejected





The skirt and bumper cleared and complete



There's an order of operations to things. First I had to mount the skirt thing up. The bumper itself covers the gap and rough upper edge on the skirt to make it a cleaner install.



It was already looking pretty good at that point, then I (with some help from my boys Trevor, Mitch and Brennan, to avoid scratches) mounted up the bumper.







Looks 133456868^5x better than that overbite situation with the exposed tow hooks and bumper shock holes. But the hood is still giving me problems. I'll just sand and spray again in the morning I guess!

[WICKED WEISS]

Can I touch your beard.

[244Brick]

i would strip it to bare metal n go from there

[Trigsby]

So much progress, man. So proud of ol' Darla.

[csermonet47]

Valence looks killer!

[martinm13]

Your paint issues to me look like they are caused by an incompatible primer and paint. If you use a spray can primer that is an epoxy primer, you should have no issues. If you are using a filler primer, they tend to shrink and that could be your issue. I am just guessing though because I have no way to know what products you are using.