EXCUSES FIRST
A lot of things have been taking my mind away from the cars, a house that seem I will never finish, the imminent arrival of a lvl 1 human being, ridiculous amounts of stress at work, helping other people with their own car projects and a worse than drug addictive video game.
I don’t know what a real depression is but I really lost interest in everything without really noticing it, work became so stressful that I just disconnected from everything that was mine and focused on others.
Then, a few days ago an unsung hero appeared and shared a link on his slowly dying because of lack of content build thread site Instagram.
A couple of guys, one that looks like some sort of Chris Fosberg mixed with a haircut model and the other one straight of the Romanian mafia bought an e30 wagon a do a motor swap, they made it look so easy that it just pumped me up.
Then, as previous post says, in all my newly acquired pumpness I went to see the bmw and came back disappointed, almost to fall into the hole I was stepping out of.
So here I am pushing myself to make this ugly update in hopes to rail myself again and not get overwhelmed by the fact that the thread won’t be “story/picture perfect” . ( Now I know why the chopped car build thread got chopped too. )
So…
I will pledge for your best imagination while looking at some of this pictures because they are way out of color / out of focus / not what reality looks like.
End.
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CHOOSE YOUR COLOR
There is a strong belief that ALL e38s are black, I know this is a myth because mine was silver.
While I think the e38 looks “awesomely gangsta” in black I just don’t have the education to own a black car.
I had a black truck and my God it was a pain to be taken care of, had a million scratches that made me cringe every time it washed it.
So the quest for a new color began.
I have stated many times that I am such a dilemma to myself -having options is such a weakness for me.
Endless nights going to sleep thinking about it and looking at thousands of pictures while my wife asked what was wrong and me saying "nothing" while I was dying inside ( not really ).
// I will use pictures from the internet without permission, if the original owner feels aggravated please don’t sue me, just ask me to remove them. I will gladly do it you egoist prick.
First test while the car was still somewhat 1 piece.
- Bentley Granite Grey Metallic
This is what it looked like.
Pictured exaggerate a red/maroonish hue on the pearl, it was a beautiful color however NCO told me that it would be hard to get it PERFECT because it is a water based color and they would have to do it on solvent base to actually paint the car.
The first thing I told him when we made the deal to paint the whole car was that I would expect nothing else than perfection. I could live with the silver OEM color as it was with all its defects but paying for a full job and ending with another color with the same defects is not something my brain can live with.
So I asked if that color was a real option and he said no.
Bleh I was just starting, I had a lot of juice left on my balls to spread on the other tens of millions of colors available.
Oh God…
A lot of discussing, watching pictures, watching RM catalogs, mixing paint at the store after we made 3 tests more.
- Bentley Storm Grey
I’m not a blue car guy, but this color appealed to me because it looked like Audi Nardo Grey with a blueish tint to it, really nice in person. Now, this is the moment where you use your imagination.
Yep, I just posted that pic. Go figure.
It was nice, but again, I’m not a blue car guy and decided against it.
- VW Carbon Steel and MB Selenite Grey
The VW color had a very pearly top finish, like if there was a puddle of paint and the pearl was floating on it. Really cool looking paint but it had a GREEN reflectiveness.
Now I don’t **** blue, but if I am not a blue car guy, I am definitely not a green car guy. The only green car I would buy is a White Tesla S.
The MB color was the same, very metallic super reflective changing paint, yet a bit greenish.
….
This looks like we made this in 3 hours but this was more like 4 weeks of back and forth colors.
After almost giving up and just going with FUCK IT AND PAINT IT BLACK ALREADY a friend of mine went to a dealer and bought a mid-sized truck.
Cell call dramatization:
Yours Truly: Hakuna Matata
Undisclosed mentally problematic Friend: I am picking up my truck and I just saw the perfect color for your car.
YT: Please tell me more
UMPF: come check it out its on blabla dealer on blabla street.
YT: I would give you a kiss.
UMPF: you will.
/End of dramatization.
That dealer was a bit of my course so I called another and asked if they had any car of that color.
OBVIOUSLY the salesman asked what kind of car I was looking for so I told him I wanted the econobox for Uber services, then shit went down because the guy got so excited that he wanted to explain me all the Uber plans they had and I had to keep the lie going, how can I explain that I just want to paint a car.
I regret it to this day.
So I did not went to see the color in person, the internet being the resourceful thing it is, filled me plenty with more doubts than answers.
I called NCO and asked him to go see the color in person and tell me if he could do that color the way I want it.
He went into a similar problem as me but he was actually on site so it was worse, and he said the chick was super-hot so it was even more painful.
Anyway, he sends me a picture of a car in that color, doesn’t help because as you can see, his phone takes pictures no better than a low res potato.
I ask for a color sample and a few days later I receive these pictures.
Without realizing once again that a potato takes better pictures I drool and tell him to wait me after hours to see it in person.
I arrive and run for the prize.
It is a nice color, not as ridiculously nice as it seems to look in those 3 pictures but it is nice.
At this point I am burnt of stress of looking at colors and I finally take the decision to paint it.
It was pretty big at that time because I thought the car was going to be sprayed like the next day.
LMAO
Up to this day I have not seen a full car color in person and at this point is useless to go to the dealer to look at one.
They already painted the engine bay / jambs / underhood / undertrunk.
He sent me this picture.
It looks like a black that turns a shade of silver that reflects any color around.
I LIKE IT.
I will be back tomorrow with a bit more because my daughter is pulling my hand of the keyboard asking for cereal.
Sorry for any spelling/grammar mistakes.
Blame the little one.
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