Thread: First Car - 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix GT - Red to Black

Hello my name is Donny and i'm from a small town in Ontario Canada, I bought my first car on November 27th 2011 and although I liked the red, I preferred black, I picked up some chrome rims off of a 98 bonneville for $200 so I figured that was my budget for this paint job, it's not a show quality job but it's fine for me, this is my first experience with body-work, painting and first time having a car, criticism is welcome.

Overall the paint job came out 10x better than I had hoped, and it only cost me roughly $120 and a lot of man hours.

First day with my baby, all clean and red:



Starting the transformation...


Snagged some chrome rims off of a 98 bonneville:

I'm not much of a body-man, but there was a big hole here before:

Door Jambs being painted black:


Plastic bumper vs Cement Parking Barrier... you be the judge:


My little helper:

It's not that I don't like pontiac, I just want the entire car to be black:

And it's going black:

I agree dsmuts; thats comming soon, going to detail inside and outside on a nice day in a week or two

Originally Posted by Nixon

nice. now just needs power.

I agree but it's my DD and I don't want to do anything too drastic to compromise that, i'm going to be going to school full time next year.

Originally Posted by KeithGTP03

Nice job. I would have done the same. Red is not my color.

yeah black looks way better, my original reason was because I didn't want to have to match the paint colour but the black looks much better for sure.

Originally Posted by sLpGPGT

cars got mad potential tho, what u planning on doing to it?

I was looking at putting together a turbo kit, it's my DD though so i'm not sure if I want to try anything like that.

Originally Posted by scottydoggs

your first time doing body work or painting a car...... right here.

Thank you very much

Originally Posted by DanPrixGTP

Nice work. Put together a turbo kit, don't be panzy.

JUST DO IT!

Haha I might pickup a Greddy's turbo tomorrow it's my day off

Originally Posted by gtpeddie

nice ride man! not to bad of a job on the body work either! how bout the engine bay still red? color changers really aint my thing unless its a restoration but it your car. did you paint it too?

Haha nope it's still red, although, I did paint the cover for my engine flat black I actually like the red on black look, makes it look different.