OMG!! It’s actually shiny! Still gotta adjust some of the body panels ever so slightly, but it’s SHINY!! 

More shiny!! This turned out SO nice! Looks like the tire even got some paint (yeah… those nasty old wheels are SO outta here).

The TuTone hood template was such a PITA to work with, I actually wound up restriping part of it by hand. Turned out sweet – even though it’s technically supposed to be flat black (I like the glossy much better… and I can actually wax it, too).

The body shop guys worked nothing short of a miracle on the quarter panels – it looks Awesome!! 

OK, so this wouldn’t be complete without Paul Harvey’s “The Rest of the Story.” The painter told me up front that he sucked at striping, and put the TuTone hood black out template on too far back and off-center to the passenger side by around an inch. The body guy thought it looked fine (that’s why you’re paid to sling Bondo and sand it all off again, Dude).

When Bernie called me about the stencil, I went over and told him I could restripe the driver side to match. He sat back, watched me do it, and thought about offering me a job when it was done. Yeah, it’s still too far back, but not enough that anybody else who isn’t intimately familiar with these cars would notice. Not perfect, but I’ll take it.

IT’S SHINY AGAIN!!!