From Rustang to Mustang: Part Two

This is a picture of the car all ready to be primed! (Primered?) The body work is done at this point, which was a week ago, actually. Gosh. It does and doesn't feel like it has been more than a week since that point in the process.

Above is a picture of Rick and I starting to mask off the car before it gets painted. We had to mask all the wires, the door latches, the shifter, the gaps where the quarter windows are supposed to go and the dash, including the pedals. Masking the pedals with a garbage bag ended up being a not great idea, as the top of the  floor panel is still red. 

A picture of our primed and block sanded car. Block sanding is a method that reveals where your highs and lows are in the body work so they can be filled before you paint, or taken down. Our car had so many highs and lows, I don't think we got them all! 

The inside of the car is going to be painted as well, since Rick wants a somewhat stock feel to the car, though he is customizing it. 

Notice on this picture how one half of the car, on the right side, seems darker than the other. The darker side is where Rick got to primer the car! The paint guy showed him the ropes a little. :)

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There was a very  brief period where the car was black! This is the mustang with a sealant coat on it, before the final coat. It does look nice in black! <3

Another view of the black sealant.

We almost changed our minds on the color when we saw it with the sealant on it, but Rick was very resilient. He stood firm on his original color decision, seeing as black shows all sorts of dirt and gets very hot. 

More pictures to come! We want to show the car, mostly finished, to my mom in person before posting pictures. That would just spoil the surprise!