{"id":879,"date":"2009-07-30T23:15:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T23:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=879"},"modified":"2009-07-30T23:15:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T23:15:50","slug":"done-painting-the-stealth-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/bmw\/done-painting-the-stealth-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Done Painting the Stealth (for now)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2607\/3773838274_f67f8af9bd.jpg\" alt=\"rear view\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to forget what a long road it&#8217;s been, but if you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/georgeco\/sets\/72157605654093502\/\">click through this set <\/a>of photos, it&#8217;s really amazing how far this car has come in the last 13 months.  I put the badges back on and hooked up the spray nozzles on the hood tonight.  Once I knocked the dust off, I was amazed that this actually looks like a real car from about 5 feet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3064\/2586558424_7de18be6d6.jpg\" alt=\"before\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The challenge with flat black paint is you can&#8217;t really appreciate it in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/georgeco\/sets\/72157621904612440\/\">bright light<\/a>, but once the light starts to fade, it really looks great.  Who would have thunk it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2575\/3773838862_0cdb624f94.jpg\" alt=\"front now\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And all it took was about 15 rattle cans of black, half a dozen cans of filler-primer, and two tubes of bondo.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3031\/2585727999_21df729464.jpg\" alt=\"front before\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to forget what a long road it&#8217;s been, but if you click through this set of photos, it&#8217;s really amazing how far this car has come in the last 13 months. I put the badges back on and hooked up the spray nozzles on the hood tonight. Once I knocked the dust off, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/bmw\/done-painting-the-stealth-for-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Done Painting the Stealth (for now)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[47,94,194],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmw","category-diy","tag-bmw","tag-diy","tag-paint"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}