I can’t answer your question, but that is one great looking Chevelle. Love that stance!

 

Thank you for the kind words, 72soft-top!

 

Hard to say Id guess 500-1000. Ask them to use good paint like PPG it really makes a difference.

Just paid 1200 to have the roof of my truck stripped and repainted. Sounded high but the work is impeccable.

 

Hard to say Id guess 500-1000. Ask them to use good paint like PPG it really makes a difference.

Just paid 1200 to have the roof of my truck stripped and repainted. Sounded high but the work is impeccable.

Thanks for replying with your experience. Ouch - that's a lot more than what I was hoping for! I'm probably going to look into buying a spray gun to figure out painting this myself.

 

Nice car Dave, is that a intercooler hiding behind the grill?

 

And exhaust dumping in front of font tire. Must be one hot 307!.....

 

Now open the & lets have a peek.

 

Relax guys - look at the fender emblem - he only has a 307 under the hood

 

You didnt say where you are located. That is going to make a lot of difference. The price of paints has gone way up in the last few years especially with everyone going to the low VOC stuff. I would ask around at a couple of local body shops and see what they say.

 

Thank you for sharing.

 

Red paint isn't cheap. Other quality paint materials aren't cheap. You need someone experienced enough to properly color match red, which isn't easy. The hood needs to be fit to the car and prepped...that's all time and time = money. It's not as simple as you going..oh here can you paint my hood..

 

Red paint is the most expensive paint and will be hard to match the rest of the car. With a new hood there shouldn't
be much prep other than making sure it fits correctly.
Another thing to consider is the new SS reproduction hood will be a 69 hood and will require 69 hinges as 68 ones won't work on it.
We usually get around 600 to 800 depending on the prep required.

 

BlueSS454, dane63,

Thanks guys for explaining this. I had no idea about red paint being that expensive and difficult to color match. I can't justify spending $600+ just for the paint/labor. I guess I'll probably just live with what I have.

Thank you again,

Dave

 

I highly doubt one is gonna butt match that color. That means blending the new red color onto the existing red panels, fenders and header panel. Otherwise your newly painted hood will stick out like a sore thumb.

 

Honestly, I like the stock hood and 307 emblems.... gives it the sleeper look (now if you could hide that intercooler ducting???)

 

Buy the hood you want and flat black it.

 

I follow you. I just bought a new SS hood. I'm thinking about just leaving it flat black. Thanks for the suggestions!

 

A black hood will definitely give a nice contrast.

 

Thank you everyone for your suggestions. It turns out you were right. Put it on and leave it flat black is REALLY cool. I plan on driving it like this for a few months. I had no idea I'd like it this much!

Thanks again!

Dave

 

If you look at the way Mopars or Fords are blacked out, a replacement black hood on a Chevelle does not look right. Just looks like you could not afford to finish the job.

 

Raven1, I'm not sure I completely follow you. Are you suggesting I'm a terrible person for doing this? It's probably true. Am I at risk of being arrested by the chevelle police? Let me tell you about some other awful things I've already done to this car. I have Porsche and Tesla brakes installed on it, 2014 Dodge Challenger seats, a Lincoln electric radiator fan, a Dodge Hellcat fuel pump, a cage, etc. Your thoughts, sir?

 

With that turbo setup, all people will see is the rear of the car.😀

 

I think it was more along the lines of cars that came with blacked out hoods have a blacked out header panel or no header panel at all, so the black paint flows into the grill without the body color getting in the way.

 

I think those cars look really good. Especially that Camaro

 

It may not be a bad idea to have the header panel wrapped in a matching flat black vinyl, which can be removed when the hood is painted.

 

I see what you're talking about now. I like that idea - I'll look into it. Thank you

 

Another option is to find another header panel and paint it to match the hood. They're fairly cheap.

 

500 is cheap if it's right

 

I agree with going with a black header panel. That makes it look like it was intentional instead of being a work in progress.
Beautiful car btw. Seems like with that big honkin turbo you are being a bit conservative at 7.5# boost. 😉

 

I have a 69 AMX in Big Bad Orange, painted in Dupont Imron paint. I traded my fiberglass hood with a stock steel hood BBO painted in a base coat and clear coat. It matched well enough that you could not tell that they were different. Not red, but orange.

 

I want to thank everyone for responding to this thead - especially Blackhawk. Based on your suggestions, I got my header wrapped in matte black vinyl. I tried doing this myself initially, and I did a horrible job. A friend of mine from work kindly came over and spent 2.5 hours wrapping the header panel. He did a great job. I like the results 1000%. My wife and son also commented about how much better it looked.

The main point of this post is to say "thank you" for everyone that offered suggestions to wrap the header

. This forum has been very helpful for me. Thank you everyone!

Dave