Got my CRX repainted. Here's a few pics

Just got the car back home on Thursday after a loooong wait. Mark Hill at Cartunes / Affordable Automotive did the bodywork and painting...took a long time because of a lot of health issues and all around bad luck he's been having but, it was definately worth the wait Here's a good shot of the front and side of the car.

The pic doesn't do the maroon color justice. Its a deep red metallic color with pearl added. We still have to wetsand and buff the car in a few weeks to make it really shine. Mark laid on around 4 coats of clear so it should look like glass when we are done. It already has a great shine with nothing done to it.

Looks great bro...... But next time hit me up i coulda gotcha done in 3 days and since your my boy just get materials and help on sanding and were good.............. Looks great bro. Painters take forever but i will give it to them its ALOT of work....

Here are a couple shots of the hood work Mark did. He literally saved my carbon fiber hood from going in the trash, with a lot of prodding from me to do it My hood had been pretty much trashed last fall right before finals when the hood latch decided to pull away from the hood while Phinney was driving my car down the interstate! Needless to say it blew open, smashed the windshield and cracked the hood in multiple places as well as almost seperating the top and bottom layers completely. Mark did a great job of epoxying the 2 halves back together and patching up the cracks etc. I really like that he was able to mask off and save the middle portion of the carbon fiber and have it show. Thatta boy Mark.

Here is a pic with my autocross wheels and tires put in front of my current 17's, just to get an idea of how they'll look. I think I like the look better than the rims I have on now. If the tires weren't so soft I'd put them on for daily.

I've got a few things left to do yet before it's done like putting on a 1/4" silver pinstripe between the black and maroon, wet sand and buff, lower the car about 2 inches, tint the windows, put the stereo back in it and possibly a few equipment logos on the bottom of the doors.
I want to thank Mark for doing such an excellent job on the car. There was a lot of frustration and delays... most of which you were not able to control, but once you got healthy and where able to spend some time on the car you went beyond what I expected and I appreciate it very much. Thanks you for your hard work... and extra subtle touches here and there. I love the car!!

Looks good chris love this two tone man it looks wicked

sweet paint job. carbon fiber on the hood set's it off. Nice

looks damn good man. love the two tone

Ya for sure slap a pin stripe in between the to colors...that would set it off! Looks good though!

Thanks guys. Think I'll get the pinstripe on today. Gonna do 1 side 1st then take pics and decide which way I like it better. Also after looking at the pics with the black/chrome lip wheels, I think I'm gonna put them on instead. What do ya think?

I think black looks better,but im biased...look at my car lol.

how you like those head lights? Where did you get them from? Sweet paint job though, I want to get mine done...body work and painted!!

we striped the car down to bare metal , no fenders, doors or hatch , pulled glass and anything that could be taken apart after fixing the rust/dents sealed , epoxy primed , fill and sanded until no skin left painted black reasembled panels , taped second color added then cleared , the only area not painted was engine compartment , chris will do that at home , next cut and buff and stripe . hood should have gone in garbage BUTT chris is a little tight ( he squeeks when he walks) . just kiding chris .

Nah... I just new you could fix it. It turned out great, heck it's probably stronger than it was from the factory.
I put the black/silver rims on yesterday and I really like the look. They go great with the top 1/3rd of the car being black. Looks like I'll be getting another set of black rims for daily and sell of my 17's to help pay for them.

jmanjr82 wrote:

how you like those head lights? Where did you get them from? Sweet paint job though, I want to get mine done...body work and painted!!

Got the headlights from ebay. Haven't hooked up the halo's yet but they are nice. Ebay had several different black headlights, the one's I went with were a bit more spendy than some but they were worth it.

looks great chris... great job mark

Them the sonar headlights?

iowan wrote:

looks great chris... great job mark

Thanks, can't wait to get it buffed and pinstriped. Thinking about doing some subtle logo's along the bottom moldings of the car. Either in silver metallic or carbon fiber vinyl.