Light at the end of the tunnel.

The winter or 2005 I finally received an actual offer to paint my car from a good friend, Bob Civiello Jr. He works at a regular body shop during the day and offered to paint this using his own facilities on his spare time with my help. He looked over the car and a price plus the barter of some items was arranged and a deal was set. The car was moved to his work area in the spring of 2006. We started right away to fix the crappy work that the last shop had done (and not done), and to sand the entire car down to make things smooth and flat. We both under estimated the amount of work that really need to be done I guess, as it did take us a bit longer than expected to move along. Once we sanded the entire car down we fixed a bunch of small body imperfections and some larger ones that were found as well. After all the sanding was done a good coat of primer was laid down and we got to do more sanding (wet sanding), but the wet sanding is the precursor to the color so it was really starting to come together and look better almost everyday.