97 civic 4 door build

ok, so let me start out by telling you that this car belongs to my little sister, the ideas were hers, and the work was done by her, AustinK, trey(not on this forum) my father, and myself. its not perfect, but it works, and looks pretty damn good for what we were working with.

The car started out bone stock with an interior that was falling apart, rusted steel rims, black paint that was falling off, and 0 out of 10 good looks..

about two years ago her and AustinK had the idea to chalk board the whole car.. it turned out awesome! then she decided that the stock rims just didn't work, so she picked up a used set of polished rota slips for cheap. before we put the rims on the car i picked up some lowering springs from a friend and lowered the car about an inch. not to much because roads here SUCK.. now the car is looking pretty sick.. next she started working on the interior. we replaced the headliner material and door panel cloth with some fabric she picked out from hobby lobby. she actually did most of the interior herself.
















after the interior was done she started working under the hood. i got her an old junk yard short ram intake, and she painted it and her valve cover.



by this point her car was really coming together and it was time for her first car show!

after a full night of chalking.. the car looked like this at Scrapin The Coast 2010.

oh, and Drop Jaw Magazine really seemed to like it!















but thats not the end..
more to come!

Want me to post the final painted pictures?

im going to post the progress pics of the final paint job. then you can.

Oh ok gotcha man

ok, so the chalkboard car was pretty cool, but eventually it was time for a real paint job.

and let me start out by saying that chalkboard paint wasn't made to come off... EVER..

what should have taken about a week ended up taking us over a month. we started with the door jams because thats usually the hard part. they turned out perfect! my sister and austin picked out the color.








shortly after that we started sanding on the car, and after about 3 hours of wasting sandpaper on the hood we decided to use paint stripper.


























































by this time we are a good 3 and a half weeks into this, but finally it was time for color!





more to come. photobucket is being gay again.

and ill let austin post the pictures of the final outcome.

Wow Im extremely impressed somebody can sling some paint for sure! looks killer for a garage job man

thanks! i guess austin is at work. so ill post up one of the pics he took.




im sure he will post some more later.

Oh my that thing is nasty!

dude I posted these while I was at school on my iPad guess it didn't work, my bad! Love this car as much as I love flat broke motorwerks

lovem....
great pics man. and its all good. i figured you were just busy.

BTW. im doing a photoshoot on the beach at 7 in the morning.. feel free to come down and help out. lol.

ha bastard, I wished I could...oh btw, I'll be down next weekend on the 9th. Oh and I start my photography class today, muahahahahaha

damn dude that looks really good!

Yes I'm so glad she went through with it...I love this little car and its even better that a chick drives it, perfect daily driver...

you need to tell her to wash the poor thing.. lol its been washed three times since its been painted. poor car. i tell her that all the time and she won't listen to me.

you need to tell her to just sell it to me..I'll buy it while I'm down there the 14t-18th

i'll be the first to say tits or gtfo.....









































































paint looks great

dude its his little sister...

Dunno how I missed this thread.
Cool as shit for a girl to be interested in cars and doing work herself on it.
then again....maybe not that interested if she isn't washing it and letting the good show.

LOL@ tits comment.

Ha well she has been busy the past few months I know with her new job, finishing school, planning a wedding and all that.

unii wrote:i'll be the first to say tits or gtfo.....




paint looks great

and thanks austin. yeah. she is pretty busy, and ill tell her to think of a price. but you should make her an offer.. she honestly doesn't know what to ask for it..

lol just trollin haha