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Stank Booty revival…

The last time Stank Booty was driven in anger was US Air 2021. I have not updated this site in quite some time as life has been doing its thing. I married, had a son, moved multiple times, teaveled etc.

Passing through Chicago on the way back home from US Air.

I’ve built two cars since then. The E36 and my current G35.

I also had an LS400 for a bit.

I’ve always wanted to paint a car orange so I decided that was the next color for the SC. I started on the body work. Filling he holes from the old GT wing and molding the hood scoop.

This was the most tedious part. Lots of sanding. I also worked on making sure the doors cleared the fenders properly. I kept getting binding.

I finally started trimming and fitting the body kit as well. My dream wheels, brand new burning black Work Misters came in as well, so I was able to test fit.

Sadly this is where I realized I needed to go back to 19’s to run this kit. I had raised the car 3 inches and the aero was still dragging.

I also did Battle Version subframe bushings and restored the rear underside of the car along with battle version arms front and rear.

A neighbor saw me working and gave me his card. He was a painter and looked the car over and gave me a decent quote to finish off the body work and paint the car. So I prepped the car to go off to paint.

I added a JP fiberglass DMax style wing as well. I neesed to body work this because it was so wavy but I ran out of time. 3

3 Months later I was sent these photos as an update.

I was livid. Overspray everywhere, the wrong color, and no adittional body work done. I immediately picked my car up and started looking for another shop.

This shop couldnt do the pearl I wanted so I selected 4V7 off the Prius C. The Aero hadn’t been touched by the previous guy so I asked them to make sure to prep. A week and a half later they called for me to pick up. Another disappointment.

Back it went…for a year. In this time someone broke into the shop and stole all the keys. My original Lexus key was replaced with a blank. The car sat outside so long my stickers baked and my Bride Gardis faded on the left side. I’m sure this was punishment for not accepting a bad job. But finally a year and a half after first sending the car to paint it was done. It is by no means perfect but I can work with it.

Now starts the process of cleaning up the overspray and cleaning out the interior from all the body shop dust. I also started spraying the jams and removing the old stickers and vinyl.