"Lost Cause"- Sychotik Impala SS **Finished**

Edited: 9/8/2009 8:23:50 AM by lost cause

 One Sychotik ride after another,....... they keep bring'n em, and I keep knock'n em out 

This time they brought me a 96' impala SS bagged on 22's, already black with minor body work but a shit load of things that needed to be shaved

Its going back black, with a simple chrome trim and a little pinstriping here and there. also the owner wanted all of the original emblems airbrushed back on the car ....... 
This is what the car looked like when it arrived at my shop......... 
 
 
The first thing I did was remove all four of these....... 
 

once were removed, so was the paint around the handle.........
 



 
Next filler plates were made and tacked in place..... 


 
and then tack tack tack all little more......
 


 
until they were wedled solid  
 
After smoothing out the welds, I layed the first coat of mud and moved on to the antenna, amblems, and trunk lock..........
 
antenna,....gone
 


emblems,....removed....and YAY!!! somebody clear coated over the old adhesive tape  
 
Trunk lock removed and prepped........
 


filler plate tacked in place.......
 
 

 

 

there was a few dinngs, and some cracked fiber glass that needed some attention before I was ready to prime.........
 
 
 
also the trim had to be cut and re-shaped to fit the new bumper since the factory bumper had a completley different profile
(as you can see in these pics) 




 


 
 
All the body work primed along with thge New bumpers that were, ready to be blocked now  
 
 
 

 
finally in the booth and all taped up!
 





after spraying the black base I the layed down the design with blue fineline tape......... 




next I taped off the rest of the vehicle so I could spray a silver base in side the design
 
 


 
Now that we're up to date it's time to bust out the air brush,.....in between where the chrome splits he customer wants some crazy airbrushing  



"Lost Cause"

Brian, nice work brother...How long from time you started til where your at now? I'll be emailing you soon

Nice work man as always, when I get another mazda I'm going to be hittin you up for paint sometime. Cant wait to see the rest.

did you do all of this from the time you got back from camp & drag until right now? lol. if so, damn you move fast bro!

nice!!  Any updates on what you decided on for yourself after you sold the taco?

Thanks guys. I never could bring my self to sell the taco lol....I turned down the offer of 8 g'sOnce I got my rendering back from Surface-dvd it was all over after that,.....I realized how stupid it would be to sell the truck i put my heart and soul into just to start all over again.I'll be starting a build thread for it real soon...... it's going to be called "Project: SICTACO"  I've had this car for quite a while now, but just recently am i getting caught up in the shop,....this car shouldn't have taking me more than a couple of weeks to complete  "Lost Cause"

Looks good man! cant wait to see how it turns out.  btw, it was nice meeting you this weekend at C-N-D   Taylor

Looking at that picture with the blue masking paper makes me think it would look pretty sick blue on top. Looks great though.

looks sick as always

Dude put a shirt on.  lol.   It looks good so far.