My "NEW" '95 LSi

[JT95]

I never got around to posting any photos of my wagon after I painted it a couple months ago. I had bought the car as a salvage titled vehicle several years ago and replaced the hood, bumper, and a fender. At that time, I simply re-painted the replaced parts with the intention of doing the whole car later. Well, the rest of the car was in need of some attention, so I painted her up in October. I've done little stuff on cars like door jambs and fenders, and I tried one full paint job aout 7 years ago, but painting this whole thing was still a new experience for me. I'm content with how it turned out. I was using a gravity fed paint gun for the first time and two different paint characteristics, so my white didn't go on as well as I hoped--got some orange-peelish effect. I had my pressure miscalculated evidently. Oh well, in the spring I will wet sand it lightly and shoot the whole thing with a couple shots of clear coat and thatt should smooth it out. This is the joy of owning a 13 yr old car. Anyway, here are some photos of it.

 

 

 

 

I like how the black/white tailgate turned out.

 

Didn't notice that spot under the car when I took

the pic. (Public parking garage here--not my mess.)

You'll also notice the mirror missing. It got whaped,

so I'm in the process of mending the internal mount so

it won't flop anymore. SOA sells only the whole

mirror assemble, so it's JB Weld time...

 

When I did the rebuild on this car a few years ago, I

was on a tight budget, so I got non-Sube atermarket

parts. Bumper and grille were plain. So, I recently

got this chrome trim tape from the parts store and

blinged the front some.

 

I also painted he center of roof black with spray-can

truck bed liner from Wal-Mart. I did it to protect the

roof's paint that would have been scratched from me

haulin' stuff up top, but I really like the look of it. I

need to get a better daytime pic so you can see it

better than this.

 

 

Here's the before...after some wet sanding of course.

I had painted the rocker panels flat black a few years

ago, and that had a nice visual trick of more ground

clearance than the car has--in case you wanna try

the same thing.

 

 

 

 

I'm about to hit 230,000 miles on this baby. I'm the second owner. The original owner was very good about taking the car to the Subie dealership for scheduled maintenance up until someone ran into him. I've done an okay job of being a good owner with proper maintenance routines, but I could have done better. Still, the car runs great. I'm curious to see how long it can keep going. The interior is still pretty nice too. Window tint has gone to crap, so I'm gonna either fork out the cash or try to do it myself this spring. I also redid the alum wheels this summer. They were corroded and lightly pitted and overall ugly, so i covered them with aircraft stripper and scraped the remaining coating off, took a wire circular brush on a drill, and buffed hard on those babies. Then I painted them with wheel clear coat from a spray can. Not the most professional looking, but much better than nasty and stained/pitted.

 

Anyway, my car is looking a lot better than it did a few months ago, so I wanted to show it off to some fellow Subaru owners.