New SHO Front End

[beefcake]

i like it, looks very good!

 

[Racer X]

That looks sick. Good job Kirk.

Btw, cost for paint is ridiculous. $104 a pint?!

 

[RonPorter]

Excellent!!

 

[NebraskaSHO]

That looks great!!! I like the painted chrome side "vent" too.

 

[PonySHO]

1.) Did you use a flat black on the grill section?

I wonder if you paint over the argent with clear coat that is tinted with black that it would yield a black chrome type look?

 

[SHODWN]

Black- Dupont trim black

Thanks Guys Im glad you like it..

 

[Mr Anonymous]

M and M Auto Body Oxford Mass!

When did Ronnie move the shop to Oxford!?!?!?

Car really needs tint now...

 

[Shoman594]

I have to say it looks fantastic!

The way your SHO looks right now Kirk is what I had envisioned the new SHO to look like.

Basically if you see it coming down the road you can tell right off the bat if it is a SHO. You could do that with the previous 3 generations. This is what I would like my new SHO to look like!!! Again great job!!!

 

[IM Buddy8]

Kirk.. You will always be da bestasis!

 

[elarm1]

Dont forget where I live! Its just about dark here at 330 now.. Inside there is florescent lights with red and blue bulbs above, and some of the outside pics used a flash.. which will f things up too.. People that know me, know if it didnt match it would be ripped off and already down to Ronnies and I would be calling Dupont and waking someone up! lol

For matching the paint its one of the BEST jobs I have seen with all the pearl and metalic in this paint.. in normal outside light you can not tell any difference.

PS. 104.00 for the paint (pt) and 100.00 for reducer (pt), I just about took a James right there when then gave me the price of the paint!

Paint is expensive! When I repainted my bike (KAWI GREEN), it cost me almost three hundred for a pint and a pint of reducer! They need to bring back Crack so the price of P***Y can go back down!

 

[SoonerLS]

I wasn't quite sold on the color-matched grille, but seeing it on the car, man, that's sharp as a tack. Well done!

Not sure Tux Black should be Solid Black.. I think..

Tuxedo Black has mica flakes in it. There was a big to-do about it when it debuted on the MKS; it's the result of some new painting process that Ford and DuPont(?) pioneered for the MKS, IIRC.

Edit: Oops, it is glass, not mica:

Ford said it has created a new, industry-leading pigment named Tuxedo Black that will launch on the all-new Lincoln MKS flagship sedan. Ford explained, "This deep metallic, like a set of jewels, isn’t an ordinary metallic that is composed of mica flakes but instead has a new flake derived from glass. Because this glass pigment radiates a beautiful sparkle, less of this special flake has to be added, providing a black that glistens like never before."
-- http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070905/FREE/70905001/1528/newsletter01

 

[IM Buddy8]

Paint is expensive! When I repainted my bike (KAWI GREEN), it cost me almost three hundred for a pint and a pint of reducer! They need to bring back Crack so the price of P***Y can go back down!

Kinda like john deere's green.. CRAZY EXPENSIVE... Same with Caterpillar's orange.. Kawasaki green was made to make money haha.. People always need fairing's painted.. They wanna make a few hundred off of ya each time you get a decent scratch in one..

 

[expy916]

that looks a ton better

not a fan of chrome myself...

check your ***

 

[Izzmo]

Nice job Kirk! Looks great.

 

[SeanMc]

It's like a modern day police grill. Very nice!

 

[OSU 4 SHO]

Looks good man. There is a LOT of potential with the new SHO both performance wise and looks wise. It is slowly creeping up on my CPO list in 2.5 years.

 

[NotSoSlowSHO]

fantastic!!:woo-hoo:

 

[raff18]

looks freaking sweet man glad to see u got a one off car now
i like to mod just about everything i own no car i have ever had has stayed stock for long
keep up the great work and if i were u id send ford an email with the before and the after

 

[luigisho]

The new color grill looks fantastic. I hope you decide to redo the chrome trim at the bottom. Like Tony said, the chrome around the doors would look better in red (or black). Me hates chrome on new cars. Nice work!

 

[Eastcoast SHO]

When did Ronnie move the shop to Oxford!?!?!?

Car really needs tint now...

technically the shop is located in oxford, but the way the town line works it is labeled webster, i know i lived right across the street from there before i met kirk, and it was funny to see all of the SHO's for sale not knowing they were kirks