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'94 Dodge Stealth R/T

Bodywork by Dustin Nelson and friends

• Before bodywork:
I bought this car for my second year auto body project in college. I took some photographs of some of the damage to the body. What you can't see in the pictures is some hidden damage that we found.


• During bodywork:
The back bumper cover looked fine enough to fix when I bought the car. As my friend/class mate was sanding the back bumper cover a huge chunk of bondo went flying to revealed a huge hole that was hidden. The bondo was beyond it's recommended thickness of 1/8" and it's not supposed to be used for patching holes. If you look at the fifth picture you can see the spot. It looks fixable and if you look close at the Dodge logo that is on the bumper cover under the tail light you would think everything is fine. Truth behind that Dodge logo is the bondo. the logo was carved out of bondo. Someone was artistic enough to fool a person. So the bumper cover which looked saveable became another item to add to my bill.

There was also damage behind the left front headlight that had been badly fixed the first time. So we kept finding more and more evidence of a previous accident with the bad bodywork done to it. The damage to the front that you can see in the fist picture was bad enough to cause frame damage which we pulled out on the frame rack at school. You also can see the damage the front hit caused by the front fenders. They buckled into the doors on both sides.

The paint code called for a tri-coat paint job. The paint job that was done to it in it's first accident was also done wrong. It looked like the base coat was mixed into the pearl before they sprayed the paint. The base coat is supposed to be sprayed first, then the pearl, then the clear.


• The finished product:
As you can see in the finished paint job, there is a pearl effect in the paint like there should be.

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