Streetneats FC Custom Coupe

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One primered blue coupe.I had put it back together for one wekend of shock and awe.. I took the partially assembled primered car to  a show at the old Boggo rd jail... Heh heh heh... THAT took everyone by suprise... no one know what I was up to...

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All rubbed down and ready for masking and new paint...

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New colour being applied by Graham....

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Base coat Cyan Blue is applied...This gives asatin finish that is very handy for picking out any imperfections..thankfully there weren't any...

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We've been here b4 ...same car different colour... same gloss of the gun...

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This is my Good mate Darryl McKenzie... Kiwi artist that is responsible for Hoon Auto gear and many many fine Jobs on cars.... I saved up for a whole year and flew himin from Christchurch for this very task.. We had No idea what was to happen. I have rubbed the clear down so he can lay down his art....

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Laying down some flames... It wa sdecided that Ghost flames would suit the car and accentuate its lines...

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lines laid out in tape...now for a very big job of masking... this whole flaming and painting process was filmed ..another thing to add on tape...

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All masked and ready for airbrushing....

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Flames applied an de- masked... Then remasked for the clear to go over the whole car again.

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Graham applying the clear....

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Artist  darryl beams his satisfaction for the camera...

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All assembled again and The car finally has a name ..."MISS LEAD" ....Darryl also did the art for the conti kit...I am satisfied the blue is much nicer...

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Back to Koolsville ( Little Micks place) ..for some more Kool tatts for the car.. He is a little camera shy so the flash makes him look like he's on another planet.... A hell of a nice guy...  did this for Nix....Whole car and tool box took about twenty minutes... using one shot enamel .. this stuff when dry is non removeable...

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Brisbane hot rod show 2003... Won top radical custom third year in a row here... I put a lot of expense and effort into the display every year...I never display the car with any more than one door open. Customs by their very nature look best diplyed closed up so the viewer gets an un interupted view of the flowing lines... Car has come a very long way from its humble beginnings... This car has won more awards and coverage than any other car for least amount of $ spent. It owes me $15 000 and five years of my life. I am anti show car so I dont have the ego that matches the car... I just enjoy cruising it and all the trophies are hidden under the house...

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A better view of the cruising lights built into the skirts....

[Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius]

Thanks for the marathon effort Streetneat, I don't know about anyone else, but I am gobsmacked. It's good to see the car in the magazine features, but it is even better to see how it all done.
I love the shot of the gold version sitting in the booth with masking still in place, looks like a block of solid gold.

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Gday stinky...Sorry about smacking your gob.... RET has I requestesd this posting is pulled down and put into star photo..I have not figured how to do this yet but I have transferred all these images to this site;http://gallery.oldholden.com/album79 Here you will find even more photos and other albums as well under this link http://gallery.oldholden.com/ Apologies to ret for taking up so much space... Hopefully more will see this b4 its removed... Oldholden.com works a bit differently to this site and want as much stuff posted as possible...so you will find heaps there.. I understand rets position and respect this...Cheers streetneat....

[Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius]

Yep, I can appreciate that, the web-site I manage is nearing capacity now, I'll have to clear out some old stuff soon.

I have saved a copy of the story and pics to my hard-drive, is it OK with you if I reformat it and put it on the Street Machine Assoc. of SA web-site? (www.smasa.com.au if you want to have a look)

Cheers

[RET]

Just to clarify,

No problem leaving the thread here, I've no intention of removing it.  It's only the images need to be relocated, as we are over our 50MB space allocation, and these two threads alone consume 6MB of that.

The links to the pictures will be amended once they're moved, so the thread will look exactly the same.

cheers
RET