Putting pieces back together

Its finaly done. car is out of garage, and it looks good. Sunday we managed to put interior back, biggest job was to put new carpet. Its a litlle too blue what i was looking for, but its a million times better then the oold smelly rubber floor. It was so wet under the old carpet, water never gets away from it.

Here is some project pictures:

Ugly smelly carpet out

My cousin trimming new carpet

First testdrive; some odd piece from exhaust system fell off.

Seats are back on

I like those nuts lol

Please dont close the door

You can barely see new deck cover carpet

Few trim pieces from outside are still missing. When I get those, we take better pictures from outside.

Have you seen a shiny copcar

Nothing goes like planned I guess. Car got nice clearcoat, but i blow it (in few spots).
Before spraying I cleaned the surface, but I missed a spot on roof. So after spraying clear, there was a ugly black stripe in middle of it.

There was nothing else to do, then wait it to dry and then start spraying white again.

But nothing goes like movies; clear doesnt like basecoat sprayed on it, it peels off. Now I have to sand-paint-sand-paint it many times until it doesnt peel anymore. Then I can clearcoat again white parts.

But it looks very nice now with black finished. It will be a shiny copcar!

Black is finished. White still needs to be sprayed clear.

Nasty peeling on white. Hate that.


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Update next day:

Whole car is painted and clearcoated. Now I cant start putting parts back together!

First sticker and trunk trim on.

pretty almost (new) wheels

Car with new nice paint wont look good if wheels are rusty and ugly.

Just a bit sanding, rust primer and black paint makes wonders. Now ofcourse old chrome trim looks a bit busted, so needed to order those new replacement part. Found seller in eBay that had those cheap + shipping was available to worldwide.

Old wheel before paint

Shiny just painted wheel.

From hubcapkingdom in eBay you can get these cheap.

Waiting for clearcoat

I just keep working, but it looks like nothing happening... There has been a few dents that have been found when thought its finaly ready. So have been fixing those and painting and fixing... I am sure there will be some left, but after all; it is a cop car, it cant be  mint, can it?

Today I have rewrapped the car. Didnt wanted to take a risk of dust coming from those that had been on for a while. I still have to spray some base black, there is few spots that tape havent been sticked well and you can see some white paint came thrue from when it was covered.

There was original cop paint on window seals, so I am not worried I ness those a bit more. Also door handles were painted black (not wery nicely), so I will just fix them if there is some white leaked.

Here is a recent picture, even that it doesnt look much different from earlier pictures.

It would be nice to hear from other Caprice owners, so please post comments/questions to this. Just click that "post comment"

Been working hard.

Car is painted. All it needs still is the clearcoat. Its been record cold in here and also windy, its been slowing us down a bit. Hopefuly its out of paint booth by next monday.

I havent been able to stay away from eBay. Got this old police computer, I think its going to look cool inside, even that there is no guarantee that it works.

I also have a traffic advisor, that I got from voltexlightbars.com. It looks nice but it DOESNT WORK. DAMN. I have contacted that company, even sent it for service but it came back even worse. It still has guarantee left but they dont even answer emails. Crappy company. Here is their video how its supposed to work: (takes while to load)