Took the Cobra to the body shop today!

[02 281 GT]

Stopped by to take a look today and took a pic while I was at it. They have the new, but used door stripped down to the metal and installed to check the fit. Right now they're waiting on a section of quarter panel to replace the damaged section.

 

[94gtfreak]

Looks like it's coming together fairly good!

 

[HankyGT]

Great paint and body work never comes cheap man. I had an inside line from a professional body man, doing a cash under the table job; and I got quoted $3500 for a color change; without any custom work. Depending on what you're getting done, 5k isn't rediculously out of line if it's going to be show quality. I'm sure it'll look awesome when done.

 

[02 281 GT]

Yeah. This will probably be the largest amount of money I'll have spent on a car at one time. It'll be worth it, though. The guy at the body shop was telling me that Ford usually adds yellows or whites to their black paint jobs to tone down the black a little bit, and that he could either give me a factory paint color or go with a true black. I told him to go ahead with the true black. Should be interesting to see how that turns out.

 

[02 281 GT]

A little bit of progress.

All taken apart and dirty as hell right now.

Dent repair.

Antenna delete.

 

[inphiniti]

awesome mod... thatll be next, the antenna delete in mine if/when i repaint the car. awesome progress! should bbe back just in time for some spring/summer weather

 

[5.0_GT_kid]

Geez, how many sets of wheels do you have? lol

 

[02 281 GT]

Haha! I swapped those silver saleens with my '02 GT before I sold it. The wheels on there right now are cheap wheels with a lot of wear and tear on them. I don't really care what happens to them, so they'll be on there for the paint. I have some Foose nitrous chrome wheels in the mail that will be going on when it's finished.

 

[5.0_GT_kid]

Haha! I swapped those silver saleens with my '02 GT before I sold it. The wheels on there right now are cheap wheels with a lot of wear and tear on them. I don't really care what happens to them, so they'll be on there for the paint. I have some Foose nitrous chrome wheels in the mail that will be going on when it's finished.

You mean those Cobra R's? They look fine to me from the pics.

The Foose wheels should look nice though.

 

[02 281 GT]

They might look fine in the pics, but they're not in person.

 

[02 281 GT]

Two of the new wheels came in today. Other two to be delivered tomorrow.

View attachment 226833

 

[88stang88]

Those are nice

 

[02 281 GT]

Here's another pic or two. Got the tires mounted on the new wheels. All the body work is pretty much all done. It's only waiting to be prepped for paint now.

A better shot of the antenna delete and some associated repairs on the fender/door.

They couldn't fix the original quarter, so they grafted in a piece from a salvage yard. Pretty damn good job.

HO Fibertrends '95 Cobra R hood.

New wheels. 18x10/18x8.5 Foose Nitrous chrome. 295/35 and 265/35 BFG KDW2s.

 

[Pops Fun]

Lookin good

 

[02 281 GT]

I decided to go ahead and paint the new console while I was waiting and since it was nice outside. Got this one out of a wrecked '03 Cobra. It used to be black. I had been putting off painting it because I was afraid it wouldn't turn out good, but it actually turned out a lot better than I expected.

View attachment 225646
View attachment 225647

 

[02 281 GT]

It's done. I'll post up some better pics once I do a real photo shoot.

I also installed the new console.
View attachment 215948

 

[YEAHLOH95]

wow that looks awsome they did a great job with the body work

 

[NinJa_FLiP]

verrrry nice.. i wanna repaint my stang jet black.. btw, what paint did u use for the center console?

 

[5.0_GT_kid]

I like those rolled tailpipes. Where did you get those?

 

[02 281 GT]

I used the interior paint from LRS on the console. The tailpipes have magnaflow 2.5" x 18" x 3" welded on.