Moment of Truth

I took the car to Maaco with the assistance of Garcia (who else, right?) and disassembled it in the parking lot, body kit, fenders, headlights, taillights, and let them do their thing. In hindsight I probably should have taken off the ganadors during the prep but they’re never coming off any way (we can just call that my excuse for being a lazy bum). Anyway, Maaco was going to take care of everything from there, all I had to do was wait a couple days. IMG_8049

So… are you ready to see it? I dropped it off on a Monday morning and while I was at work the following Wednesday, Maaco gave me a call and told me the car was ready for pickup. The drive to Maaco took almost an hour and a half because of the typical California traffic. When we arrived it was damn near pitch black but there was a single street light illuminating what to me was the most beautiful thing I had ever laid my eyes on.

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“Some assembly required”

It came out exactly how I wanted it to. A blue so dark that you couldn’t even tell it was blue on camera. I’ll spare you the details and dump a bunch of photos for ya:

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With the Good Luck League just around the corner, I wanted to have the car shot by an actual photographer so I’d have nice photos of it in case I smacked into a wall or something. I asked around and ran into @lensprophet who did an amazing job with it. I will say I am kind of bummed I decided to leave the wing’s endplates off for the shoot because now that I look at it again, it looks weird. Oh well, you live and you learn. He charged me $100 but I threw $15 more at him because I ran incredibly late which subsequently meant he was on a time crunch. Nonetheless, the photos came out amazing: 

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