Well, the Prelude is in the shop getting painted with House of Kolor Sunset Pearl paint this weekend. After they sprayed the basecoat (orange) they noticed that no matter what they did the paint color would not lay out evenly. Every different angle was a different color.
So they call us in there tonight and show us. It doesn't look terrible but it isn't perfect and we want perfect. So they have this $8,000 machine that takes a photo and breaks down the color so they can mix the color with different paint. So, either we have them do that or we go back in the morning and choose a different color. We have all the paint chips right now and are looking through them but we will probably just stick with the same color.
It sure is frustrating though. I am glad the paint shop wants the car to turn out as good as we do. Most places would have just sprayed it and let it go.
Here is the paint before the clearcoat (clear completely changes the way paint looks for those that have never seen a car in between stages.)
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