A lot of priming going on.
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On a '69 and '70 model only the outside skins were painted the color of the car.
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The rest was what we call "cheap black".
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This doesn't necessarily mean flat or satin black, it was just cheap paint.
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They might have called it matte black, but who even knows. This is the way we do it at Gunnar Racing.
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It ends up looking like original, but in these pictures it's just black primer. This keeps the chips to a minimum in the visual department because if it chips to the primer the primer is black so the chip is hard to see. It just makes it look nicer a lot longer.
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Everything has detail.
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We all know that the front trunk, the engine bay, or even the smugglers box were never this nice.... What we haven't been able to do is paint something in a restoration and make it look 40 years old. Patina will come with age, same like a good bottle of wine.... Does that make any sense?
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To paint one of these 911's we go through about a million miles of masking paper to keep the detail nice and clean and free from over spray.
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We know Porsche never painted them this way, but this is the way we do it so tough shit.
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First primer is being sanded for final primer.
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The floor has been primed a second time so we mask it off to keep it from over spray while we paint the dash and kick panels.
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Final paint and this area will be covered with lightweight carpet.
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Now working in the engine bay, stripped to bare, a little bodywork, and primer.
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You can note the oil lines coming through for the front coolers (capped with green masking tape).
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No strengthening to the shock towers yet, this won't be done for a few more years (when the RSR received all the strengthening gussets in the engine bay).
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