Restoring the Immortal GTX

The Judgement Day:

A friend of mine Amit Gaud, who owns Ground Designs and has an artistic brain came to the rescue. He approved the Grey shade and recommended 50/50 or 60/40 max matte : clear ratio. He also recommended to add more coarser metal particles to the paint. After trying his recommendation the shade matched perfectly to the idea I had.
Pandit was courteous enough to repaint the whole body structure as the outcome was not to my satisfaction. It was a kind of learning for all of us. After the repaint suddenly the dull body started looking very lively.
The spoiler and the mirrors are painted in Deep Gloss, bright red color. They gel well with the matte grey paint combo.
While all this was going on I got a s10 spoiler fabricated for myself. I somehow love the s10 spoiler and it changes the way the palio looks.
We decided to let go the body strips and also paint the bumper strips in body color itself. This way the odd palio shape is hidden and suddenly the palio starts looking like a different car.
The alloys are painted in Carbon Black dull gloss paint. I dint want to go for flashy red alloys so we decided to stick to Black shade itself with red drums and calipers.





The underbody is coated with the same 3M bondo for future protection and damping purposes

 

The next but obvious mod was the smoking of the tail lamps. Without those all the previous efforts would have been half left







The proud painter who worked very hard on my car.
The man behind him in white is Rahul Jadhav the Workshop manager and the messiah of all the TFI pune members. He is very customer centric and goes out of the bounds to help customers

 

Special Credits:
Mahesh Kulkarni – Pandit Automotive (Body Shop Head)
Rahul Jadhav – Pandit Automotive (Workshop Head)
Maula – Bodyshop Contractors
Dupont Engineers
Amit Gaud – Owner of Ground Designs
TFI Members
All the mechanics that have worked with full efforts on my car.

After Maths:
Admiration Guaranteed - Since 2 days dozens of people have asked me which car is this and not even a single person can walk away without giving another look to the car.
People come close and stare at the car on the signals too. But i am quite nervous and fear about someone scrapping my possession.

What Next?

I know all will suggest me to get new license plates.
Few mechanical upgrades.
New interiors - ohh yes, i forgot to mention/post the pics of the changes done to the interiors. The interiors are painted in Piano Black finish like the ones on new Evo/ Linea. Will get matching seats done in Black and Red