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Yes, it was time for a new paint job. After 13 years, the factory paint finally started to fade. It still had a good shine in certain areas, but not on other.
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Started with the deck lid and worked my way down. |
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 Rear and front bumpers has spider web cracks showing through the paint. Sanding down through all that proved the cracks were in the plastic material itself.
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 This was not supposed to happen. The goal was to go down to the primer. This white stuff is the raw deck lid matterial.
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 The only way to fix the problem now was to shoot a couple coats of urethane primer.
I used nason SelectPrime primer surface. This is a high solids primer and builds up fast. I had good sucess with it.
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 Mean while, the hood was getting ready to receive
the cowl induction scoop. This from a 1969 Camaro. I decided to protect the hood by shooting a coat of Duplicolor GM Black followed by a Clear coat.
A 3" venting hole was added to make the scoop somewhat functional.
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 Also the Pontiac lettering on the headlight door
was filled using Evercoat's vette panel adhesive/filler #3
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 24 rivets were used to secure the scoop in place.
Then it was a matter of blending the edge with the rest of the hood. Again, the vette panel/filler was used.
Then some sanding. Then some more filler. Then more sanding... so on and on and on... well, you get the idea.
It was a lot of work! Once I was somewhat satisfied with the results I applied a light coat of
Dynatron's DynaGlaze
Polyester finishing putty to smooth and feather before priming.
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This is the hood just primed.
Because of the nature of the scoop (ABS Plastic), I decided to use
SEM's Flexible primer surfacer.
This should provide enough "flex" so a flex agent wouldn't be needed in the base coat.
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And at last, the final product... The ultimate sleeper. No factory badges. If you've never seen a Pontiac Fiero before, you wouldn't know what this is. 
The paint shines quiet nicely (from a far). But up close you can tell is a cheap job. Lots of over spray, areas without paint, and even finger prints on the cured paint. It's OK for $300. This is the Maaco Ambassador package with the better sealer/primer. |
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THANKS NOTE:I like to thank Randy T. Agee for providing all the info on the right products to use and the proper procedures to go about finishing a project like this. You can also visit Randy's excellent web site at www.FieroZone.com |
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