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cool, im a sucker for old school rat rod style... and flat black is deff that

but i caution you. dont leave it in primer too long, the reason primer is primer is b/c it adhears well to paint. why? b/c it absorbes moisture. the paint on your car will look satin when wet but youll begin to see oil spots stuff once the car gets dirty a few times. the real reason it isnt safe is b/c too long and the primer will cause the car to rust since it holds moisture against the paint

Were painting a few cars satin ourselves, but using semigloss enamel so it doesnt absorb moisture

....ya that was like a parental speech, srry
looks great~Jon

i'm suprise you would leave ur original, beautiful and undermint condition colour. it was so shiny! Flat black is very unique though, wonder if its camouflage at night... hehe can i get a night picture shot?

NaKeD

I saw it in person at autobacs a few days ago. I think i like the gloss black better.

I really like the way the car looks. I think you should put a black emblem on the front too...i must say, i think the turns look amazing, i love the way the bumper looks like its eating the turns. (if that makes sense)

me likey... i like flat black... especially flat black c-one bumper and lifter blocks

the paint was in such good shape! My car should be flat black rattle-canned, my paint sucks lol. Plus I'm a sucker for deep shiney non-flaked blacks

nice job man. the batmobile look is pretty good on your car.

That a good job
Looks good for what it is.
I hope you are upgrading your paint

This is just temporary. I don't think I can justify a 2000+ paint job on my car since the value of it is probably only 2 or 3k due to high mileage, if I'm lucky.

I'm probably going to find a place that will do the base and clearcoat for under 1k if I do all the prep work.

The reason I did this was to paint over the bondo that I used to cover up the antenna hole and to make the whole car one color. Sure the paint was nice before... but it was a free paintjob with a lot of flaws, that was just a really nice pic using a 8mp camera.

Till I get a real paint job... The Batmobile will live for a month or so. I'll post pics when it's done, it's going to be sexy.

it's nice, but i love the way cars look when they are shiny and waxed. For a temp thing though i like the "batmobile"!

Bad assssss. Thats all i can say dude. Shiney paint is for sissys.

Thats the kit combination I wanted to go for when I was interested in having a kit a few years ago. Looks pretty sick now that I've actually seen it done.

honestly, I'd like to get another celica with bad paint and paint it flat black, for good.

na na na na na na na na na na na na baaatttttt......mobile.... looks good ! personally i'd have had a bash at the alloys too , black alloys on a black car mhhmmmm

Haha, I was going to spray the wheels too, but removing the wheels and stuff and prepping it for paint is such a bitch. I think really dark gunmetal will look cool. I'm getting sick of the gold.

I like it. I have a hotwheels 6th gen on my desk that I painted flat black because it had a really nice flat blue but with some gay ricer cop symbols all over it. After I painted it I told myself if I ever get around to putting a GT4 front end and stock hood (I love the gt4 stock hood so much - kinda don't like the bumper as much as mine though) on my car I would paint it flat black - professionally though.
Good work - my 4th gen looked horrible when I did the same to it. You could see all the lines in it from using spray cans though LOL.

flat black 4th gen? that reminds me of this awesome piece of work 4th gen.
too bad the after pics arent working . that thing looked slick though.

Yeah that looks like her. I had different stock rims and mine was GTS with the lip spoiler, black and I bought it swapped with a 1st gen 3s-gte in it. I later blew that and got a 2nd gen 3s-gte and Turbo - blew that twice and finally had to give her up. I loved that car. I tore it down to the bones and repaired or replaced almost everything on it and she ran like mad. Everything felt brand new on her but she was just a money pit. I' spent like $8k in two years on it.

The pics are working now.

Chan, I really like your Celica. I think it looks great in flat black. If you want a satin sort of finish, John Deere Blitz Black paint works well, and it's around $26 a gallon I think. It's held up very well on my bro's Celica and was shot through a HVLP eBay special gun (like $30 shipped ) but still came out pretty well I think. Anyway, great work...what color do you plan to paint it if you can get it shot with a base coat/clear coat? Black again?

Thanks Coom. Probably going to paint it Black again.

I think that's the craziest thing you could do with your nice shiny paint you had...