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crownedstoat · 3 years ago

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1964 Apollo 3500 Gran Turismo by Alden Jewell Via Flickr: Apollo (1962 automobile) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Apollo Apollo 5000 GT Coupe.jpg 1965 Apollo 5000 GT Coupe Overview ManufacturerInternational Motor Cars Also calledVetta Ventura Production88 Model years1962 - 1965 AssemblyOakland, California, United States DesignerRon Plescia & Franco Scaglione Body and chassis ClassSports Car Body stylefastback coupe or convertible RelatedCarrozzeria Intermeccanica Powertrain Engine 215 cu in (3.5 L) Buick V8 (gasoline) 300 cu in (4.9 L) Buick V8 (gasoline) Transmission4 speed manual (automatic optional) Dimensions Wheelbase2,464 mm (97.0 in)[1] Length4,445 mm (175.0 in) Width1,676 mm (66.0 in) Height1,270 mm (50.0 in) Curb weight1,030 kg (2,271 lb) Chronology PredecessorNone SuccessorNone The Apollo was an American sports car/personal automobile, initially manufactured from 1962 to 1964 by International Motor Cars in Oakland, California. Engineered by Milt Brown and designed by Ron Plescia, it featured handmade Italian aluminum coachwork by Intermeccanica, with a choice between two-seater convertible or fastback styles. Power came from a 215 cu in (3.5 l) or 300 cu in (4.9 l) Buick[2] engine mated to a 4-speed manual. The initial company built 42 cars before suspending production while seeking new financing. IMC allowed the sale of body/chassis units to Vanguard Motors in Dallas, Texas, to produce cars under the Vetta Ventura name. These were made until 1966 as a stop-gap measure to keep the carrozzeria (body producer Intermeccanica) in business until new backers were found. Other production arrangements followed. A total of 88[3] have been produced to date by all entities. History Frank Reisner, a former chemical engineer born in Hungary, raised in Canada and educated in America,[4] established a company that later produced complete bodies -- painted and trimmed -- for the Apollo as well as the Texas-built Vetta Ventura (which was the same car with a different name). Reisner, on holiday in Italy in 1959, decided that he loved Turin and set up shop there as Intermeccanica producing tuning kits for Renaults, Peugeots, and Simcas. The Apollo project was the dream of a young California engineer, Milt Brown, who desired to build an American answer to European GTs, such as the Aston Martin DB4 and Ferrari coupes. Brown, who was looking for a coachbuilder, met Reisner at the Monaco Grand Prix in 1960. A deal was made and the first Apollos were built by early 1963 by Brown's International Motor Cars. Intermeccanica hand formed and trimmed the steel bodies in Turin, Italy, and then shipped them by sea to Oakland, California, where the drive train was installed. The prototype's design was by Milt Brown's friend, Ron Plescia, but the nose was too long and the rear vision limited, so Reisner commissioned former Bertone stylist Franco Scaglione to revise it. The finished car, sold by Brown's International Motorcars of Oakland, was well received and had famous owners such as Pat Boone. The base price was $6000 and the top speed was claimed to be 150 mph (240 km/h). A prototype 2 + 2 was shown in New York in 1965. It was shown again in 1966 as the Griffth GT.[4] International Motor Cars sold 42 cars (40 coupes and one spyder, including the prototype) before production stopped in mid-1964 due to lack of financing. IMC then made a contract with Reisner (to keep his operation going) allowing Intermeccanica to supply body/chassis units to Fred Ricketts, owner of Vanguard Industries, an aftermarket supplier of auto air conditioners in Dallas, Texas. Vanguard sold it as the Vetta Ventura. The intent was to give IMC time to find new financing as well as keep Intermeccanica alive. Vanguard built only 11 cars, with shop foreman Tom Johnson purchasing the leftover 11 body/chassis units and completing them as late as 1971. A third attempt to produce the Apollo was by attorney Robert Stevens. His Apollo International company of Pasadena, California completed only 14 cars, with foreman Otto Becker finishing another six. Four body chassis/units were never claimed by Apollo International and were sold by US Customs to Ken Dumiere. A pair of Apollo 3500 GTs were used to portray the Thorndyke Special race car which was featured in The Love Bug, a 1968 Disney movie. One of the pair has been fully restored.[5][6] Reisner later developed projects such as the Griffith, the Murena GT, and the Italia by Intermeccanica. Intermeccanica went on to produce the Veltro 1500, the Griffin (which was a version of the prototype Apollo 2+2), the Phoenix, and the Omega among others. Specifications EngineMax powerTransmissionWheelbaseLengthWeight 215CID Buick V8225 hp (168 kW)4-speed manual97 in (2,464 mm)177 in (4,496 mm)2,540 lb (1,150 kg) [1] References "1963 Apollo GT Convertible performance data, specs & photo". Automobile-catalog.com. Retrieved 2011-11-20. Gunnell, John A. (ed.). Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975. krause publications. ISBN 0-87341-027-0. Northrup, Robb Apollo GT: The American Ferrari Rogliatti, Gianni (Spring 1971). "Frank Reisner's Intermeccanica - One of the Few That Made it". Automobile Quarterly. New York, NY: Automobile Quarterly. 11 (3): 309–311. LCCN 62004005. "1963 Apollo 3500 GT in "The Love Bug, 1968"". IMCDb.org. Retrieved 2011-11-20. "The Thorndyke Special". Barn Finds. 2013-11-07. Retrieved 2016-12-23. Categories: Sports carsDefunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United StatesMotor vehicle manufacturers based i

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argylemnwrites · 4 years ago

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He Knew

Pairing: Colt Kaneko x MC (Ellie Whitnall)

Book: Ride or Die (post book 1)

Word Count: ~4600

Rating: R (language, referenced sensual content, referenced violence)

Summary: The five times Ellie came back, and the one time she didn’t

Author’s Note: Written for @rodappreciationweek Day 2 - Colt Kaneko. This is my first time not only writing Colt, but also my first time writing for one of my Choices couples that don’t end up “happily ever after.” I adored the bittersweet endings we got in ROD, and I wanted to keep that vibe here. This is pretty different from my usual writing tone/genre, so be forewarned - this is not a happy tale, but the crumbling apart of a relationship. It think the warnings listed in the rating section cover the content here.

It wasn’t really goodbye. He knew she’d be back. There was no way she would be able to stay away, to just fall back into a world where her only thrills came from acing a test. That was too easy for her. She needed more, the push, the challenge, the adventure. He knew because he was just like her.

He wasn’t sure exactly when she’d be back, though. He was sure she’d be back in LA for Thanksgiving, but he didn’t expect her to come looking for him then. Besides, the shop was still in ruins. He wouldn’t be easy for her to find at this point. He rode past her dad’s place early on Thanksgiving morning and saw her blue Shokai Fourier sitting in the driveway. But he didn’t see her then.

Same thing about a month later, her car parked in the driveway when he drove by a few days before Christmas. But it didn’t surprise him that she wasn’t ready to come back to his world, not just yet. That first semester of college probably had enough novelty to keep her from getting too bored. New friends, new freedoms, new knowledge.

It’s not like he wasn’t busy, too. Hunting down the remnants of the Brotherhood while not attracting any unwanted attention was a new mission, one that required a new sort of careful calculation and anticipation. He wasn’t the type to sit around pining, moping, waiting on some girl, just like he was sure she wasn’t longing for him. They were alike in that way - they didn’t let their emotions define them.

It wasn’t until the anniversary of Pop’s death that he really felt it, deep down, that he… fuck it, that he missed her. Because no one else got him, not the way she did. No one else was quite like her. He was a few drinks in, sulking in the room he was renting from X’s old roommate when he did the thing he swore he would never do - he pulled out his new phone and searched “Ellie Whitnall” on Pictagram.

Her hair was darker, no longer highlighted, but still pulled back in that ponytail. And that damn sweatshirt was nowhere to be seen. Instead it was her in a crop top and a skin-tight pair of jeans in a line with six other girls, a smile on all of their faces as their arms wrapped around each other’s backs. Her lounging on the grass with one of the same girls, textbooks sprawled out around them as they both laughed. Her eating a slice of pizza in some tiny restaurant, a blond dude who looked like a preppy douchebag sitting in the booth next to her.

She looked good, happy enough. It made him proud, but the worst parts of himself wished she was just a little miserable. Not just because he was mourning and miserable himself, and misery did fucking love company, but because she didn’t belong in a world that was bland and ordinary. She burned too bright for such pedestrian experiences. She would see that soon, and she would be back. Until then he just had to keep working on avenging his father’s death, making the Brotherhood pay for all the shit they’d done. And that’s what he did, not noticing as May and June passed by. But then July came.

He was working at the sideshow, trying to find out where Wallace had last been spotted when he saw her on the dance floor. She was wearing a little white tank top and a light blue skirt that was short enough it barely covered anything. It took all his willpower to listen to what the little punk was telling him and not just march over there and kiss her, welcome her back where she belonged. But business had to come first. Besides, she was only dancing with her brunette friend, Riya, and the guy who had worn the orange tux to prom.

“I knew you couldn’t stay away” he murmured into her ear when he finally, finally could join her. She tensed at first, as he came up behind her, snaking his hand around her waist, his fingers tracing along the thin strip of skin between her shirt and skirt, but she relaxed into him when she recognized his voice. She spun to face him, her arms reaching up to rest on his shoulders.

“Who says I’m here for you? Riya and Darius just wanted a taste of what I was up to last spring.”

Colt shook his head. “Nah, you wouldn’t have worn that if you weren’t here for me,” he said as his eyes traced over her gentle curves, settling back on her face, just as beautiful and determined as he’d remembered.

“It’s July in LA. Some of us actually dress for the heat.”

He chuckled lightly, leaned down, and kissed her. She tasted the same, her fingers felt the same as they crawled up his neck and clutched onto his hair. When he tugged her out of there and handed her his spare helmet, her arms felt the same as she wrapped them around his chest. And when they got to his new studio apartment in Broadway-Manchester and stumbled towards his mattress as they stripped as quickly as they could, she felt the same as he sunk into her, both of them moaning in relief.

After, they talked all night, lounging on his mattress, drinking cheap beer and eating the string cheese they found in his pathetically empty fridge. About her classes and seminars, her roommate from some tiny town in Nebraska who had never seen an escalator before coming to Langston, and her upcoming research project. About his plans to reopen the auto body shop next year, now that the heat was finally dying down and he could go back. About how Ximena was still around, ready to help out, but how Toby had made his way north to San Fran, working for some startup that was looking to get into the high-tech auto accessory game. About how Mona would be up for parole in a few months.

“When do you head back?” he finally asked as the sun started to peek through the window, his hand tracing along her spine as she curled up against his side, her head resting on his shoulder.

“Tomorrow,” she said, after a moment, “Dr. Frisch wants me to start on my research next week so that we can get a prototype built before the end of the fall semester.”

Colt swallowed before sliding his fingers under her chin and tilting her head up, looking straight into her brown eyes. “You happy?”

She nodded gently. “For now.”

“Not bored?”

“Not yet.”

“Just want to make sure they aren’t wasting your talents.”

“Colt…”

“Just remember, you shouldn’t settle for bland.”

“I know, Colt. I know.”

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Even though it had been over a year since he last saw her in person, he knew she would be back someday. She had his new number now, and every so often she would send him a little text or photo. They had no agreement, had made no promises to each other, still her messages were sometimes flirty, sometimes sexy. The blond idiot still hung around her Pictagram, but if she didn’t feel obligated to keep things between them… friendly or some shit, it wasn’t any of his business really.

The summer after her sophomore year at Langston, she stayed out east, hired on for some summer research program. But Colt was busy, too. The shop was open again. It wasn’t officially under Colt’s management, not until the statute of limitations ran out next year, but he had a couple of mechanics he’d hired on, keeping things on the up and up for the moment. Everyone knew Colt was running the show.

One day in October, he was at the shop, on a creeper under some rich asshole’s Porsche Cayman GTS when Ricky, his newest hire, called out for him.

“Hey, Kaneko. Some chick is here and says she needs to talk to you.”

He rolled his eyes as he pushed himself out. Ricky was talented, but he was far too much of a pushover. “I’m in the middle of this, Ricky.”

“I know, boss… but she kinda acted like you guys were… she seemed like she knew you personally.”

Wiping his hands on his pants, he strode over, ready to tell off whatever entitled little girl thought she could demand to see him, but then he caught sight of her. The sweatshirt was back, but her hair was even darker than it had been last summer.

“Ellie? What are you doing here?” He was shocked by her appearance in his shop, in the middle of the semester, and every instinct to tease her about not being able to stay away went out the window when he saw the look on her face, so hollow and lost. He ushered her into his office, closing the door and hearing it all. How her dad was in the ICU at UCLA after he’d suffered a massive heart attack. How she’d had to go on a leave of absence for the rest of the semester.

“The doctors think he’s going to be okay, but I can’t… I can’t go back to the house alone. Not after everything,” she finished, perched on the end of his desk.

“You’re here by yourself?”

“Riya transferred to UC Oakland to be with Darius, so other than you… I don’t really know anyone here anymore.”

So the blond douche didn’t come with her. Either he was even more of a dickwad than Colt pictured, or he wasn’t that important to Ellie. Either way, it was all Colt needed to know. He tugged her onto his lap and wrapped his arms around her. He didn’t tell her things would be alright, because unlike some people, he wasn’t stupid enough to try and lie to her. To make her promises he couldn’t keep.

So he did what he could. He took her back to his apartment, poured her shots of tequila, and fucked her senseless. There was nothing he could do to make things better. But he could make her forget, at least for a little bit. It’s what she would have done for him.

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“Ellie coming tonight?” Ximena asked as Ricky spread out the takeout on the table in the breakroom.

“Haven’t seen her around much lately,” Ricky said, opening the containers of fried chicken.

“She’ll be back,” Colt said with more confidence than he actually felt. It wasn’t that he doubted that she’d be back… eventually. But she was pissed at him. Really pissed. And he wasn’t sure how long it was going to take her to cool off.

It was absurd that she was angry with him when he was the only one who wasn’t handling her with kid gloves, instead treating her like the grown-ass woman she was. Her dad was recovering just fine, but Ellie kept putting off going back to Langstson. When she’d told him she’d pulled out for the spring semester, though, he’d told her exactly what he thought about that. That she was being stupid. That she was only sticking around out of guilt over her last few months of high school. That she was wasting herself.

“What happened to you telling me I would always have a spot on your crew?” she’d yelled at him, tears flowing down her cheeks.

“Not like this, with you just bumming around, aimless. Fucking around, not really doing anything. You’re better than that, Ellie.”

She’d stormed out of his apartment after their fight, and he hadn’t seen her in eight days. He assumed she was with her dad. It wasn’t worth dwelling on. She’d be back once she’d cooled off and realized he was right. But the days continued to tick by, with no sight of her around the apartment or the shop. After three weeks, he rode past her dad’s place, but the Shokai Fourier was still in the driveway, so he knew she was still in LA.

Finally, almost one month later she showed up at the shop, just as they were wrapping things up for the day. She walked straight into his office without so much as saying hello to anyone, so Colt took his time, finishing up with the spark plugs he was replacing before he joined her. She was sitting at his desk, scrolling through his spreadsheets, reviewing the shop’s finances. So damn presumptuous.

“I didn’t realize you were an accountant now,” he said, crossing his arms as he closed the door.

She spun in his chair, glaring at him. “Just seeing if you can afford to hire a mechanical engineer.”

“By my math, you’re only half a mechanical engineer at this point. That has to earn me a bit of discount on your salary.”

“I’m here to negotiate. If I’m going back for two more years at Langston, I need to know it’s going to be worth it. So make me an offer.”

Colt couldn’t fully suppress a smirk as he quirked an eyebrow at her. “What, am I supposed to write a number on a sheet of paper and slide it over to you?”

“I’m being serious, Colt.”

He rolled his eyes. “The offer’s the same as it’s always been - equal partnership, you and me, running this place.”

“And that offer will still be on the table in two years?”

“It hasn’t changed in the past two and a half, has it?”

She stood up with a nod at that, crossing the small office to stand in front of him, staring up at him, somehow looking imposing from five foot two.

“Should we shake on it?” he asked, widening his eyes to tease her, just a bit.

“I think we can do better than that,” she said before she stood up on her tiptoes and kissed him with all she had, shoving him back against the door in the process.

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Colt glanced at his phone. 11:45 pm and no new notifications. She was supposed to be back from Riya and Darius’s wedding today, but as the minutes ticked by, he wasn’t sure if she was more upset than he’d anticipated.

Technically, they were both supposed to be back from the wedding today. But he’d gotten word about some… hot merchandise that was too good of a deal to pass up late on Friday, and so he’d shot Ellie a text to send Riya and Darius his congratulations before he turned his phone off. He’d figured she’d understand. She was as ambitious as him, after all.

But seeing as it had been radio silence all day Saturday and now Sunday, he was wondering what sort of Ellie was going to walk through that door. Either she was pissed, or something had happened to her, but he didn’t think she’d been in any danger in Napa.

His finger hovered over her name in his contact list. She hadn’t answered any of his calls earlier today, so he didn’t have much hope for this one. Just before he pressed down to foolishly call her yet again, headlights flashed through the front window of their apartment’s living room. She was home.

Less than a minute later, the deadbolt turned. There was Ellie, her little duffel bag in one hand, a garment bag in the other. She looked exhausted, and when she glanced up and saw him sitting at their little table, he noticed that her eyes were bloodshot. She didn’t say anything, just shook her head at him as she walked straight into their bedroom.

“Ellie, come on-” he started, chasing after her, but she slammed the door right in his face.

“I don’t even want to look at you right now,” she called through the door.

“It was three million worth of merchandise for only four hundred thousand. I couldn’t pass it up.”

The door flung back open, Ellie practically trembling with anger as she braced herself against the door frame.

“I was the fucking maid of honor, and my plus one didn’t show up!”

“None of them like me anyway.”

“Hmm, I wonder why,” she practically sneered at him as she shoved past him, stomping into the bathroom, slamming that door this time.

“You know we need to move more volume if we want to keep growing the shop. You’re the one who wants us to expand our territory into Vermont Knolls.”

“Fuck you!” echoed through the door.

“What do you want me to say? I made the call that I thought was best for our business.”

“How about ‘Sorry, Ellie. I was a total asshole’ as a starter?”

He winced at that. He probably should have led with an apology. He just didn’t think it would piss her off this much that he’d missed the wedding.

“Ellie, I am sorry. I just thought you would be fine with it since you told me to skip your cousin’s wedding last spring so we could close that deal-”

“-You didn’t even ask me this time.” she called out.

“I didn’t have time. And they are your friends. It’s not like I left you all alone with people you don’t know.”

The bathroom door swung open, but Ellie pivoted on her heel, sitting back down on the toilet seat.

“You say I’m your partner,” she said with a heavy sigh, “but you always make these decisions without me.”

“Oh, for fuck’s sake, this was a no-brainer. The pure profit on-”

“I don’t mean business partners. I mean in our… personal life.”

He frowned at that, crossing his arms, “What the fuck are you talking about? Where is this coming from?”

Ellie just shook her head. “I don’t know. Sometimes it just feels like… like no amount of growth at the shop will ever be good enough for you. Like you are never off the clock.”

“I’m not ever off the clock. That shop is Pop’s legacy, and with you, it’s grown bigger than he could have ever imagined. I don’t know why you’re acting like this was all me. We’ve built everything we have together. You’ve always been hungry to prove yourself in this world.”

“Look who’s talking! Don’t you ever think that maybe your father wouldn’t want you sinking into this world so single-mindedly after he tried to keep you away from it for so long?”

It was an old argument from her, one he hadn’t heard in years. “My pop made a lot of bad decisions. Underestimating what both of us were capable of was just one of them.”

Ellie’s phone chirped, and Colt felt lightheaded as he watched her stand up and pick up a pregnancy test off the counter next to the sink. “Well, I hope you do better than him,” she said, shoving the piece of plastic into his hand. “This decision’s all mine, and I’m keeping it.”

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It was his own fault she was staying with her father for a few nights. He’d been careless and just a little too reckless. The contact on the new stock of Tesla Model S’s had been a friend of Ricky’s friend. He should have vetted him better. He’d been too blinded by how good of a deal it was. But it was a mess from the start, and now they owed a crew in West Adams seven million in either cash or vehicles. At least he hadn’t gotten arrested. He’s pretty sure Ellie would have murdered him if that had been the case.

But he’d gotten them involved in a bad deal. It was 100% his fault. Not only was Ellie pissed at him for not being appropriately cautious with their business, but pregnancy had reduced her fuse significantly. She’d gone off on him when he’d returned from the drop with the terrible news. He didn’t blame her for wanting to take a few days away from him and the shop. He figured it would go a long way if he’d worked out a safe way to repay their debt by the time she came back, hence staying late in his office, trying to brainstorm the quickest way out of this mess.

At some point he must have nodded off in his chair at his desk, because suddenly he bolted awake, disoriented and panicked, grabbing for the handgun he kept in his top drawer before he recognized Ellie standing in his doorway. He let out a rough breath and moved to offer her his chair, but she just shook her head.

“It won’t be worth the effort it takes to stand up again,” she said, reading his intentions in a second. “I was waiting for you at home, but when it hit midnight and you weren’t back, I thought I might find you here.”

“I thought you were gonna stay with your dad for a few more days.”

“He was asking a lot of questions about us that I didn’t exactly want to answer. Besides, I figured you might need some help coming up with a plan.” Her hands rested on top of her stomach. She still had three weeks until her due date, and Colt had no idea how was going to stand up if she got any bigger. Not that he told her that.

“It's my mess, Ellie. I can take care of cleaning it up.”

She shook her head, rubbing her hands along her bump. “That’s the thing, Colt. Your messes impact all three of us. So even if it’s not my fault we’re seven million in the hole at that moment, I need to help you fix things. And the two of us working together has always gotten us better results than either of us working independently.

“But Colt, I need you to take a step back from this ‘high risk, high reward’ approach. It was one thing when it was just you and me, but we both need to be a bit more careful going forward. Our kid deserves parents that are alive and not incarcerated, alright?”

He sighed but nodded. “I just don’t want us to lose our edge. But I get it, Ellie. I do.”

She sighed as well before she said, “Come on. Pack up your stuff and meet me at home. We can work on solving this from the comfort of our bed, okay?”

“Sure thing. I’ll see you there.”

She gave him a little smile, so forced and empty it nearly shattered him, before turning and walking out the door. He wished he knew how to earn her trust back. But she was like him. She had high standards. Fixing things with her was going to take ages.

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Colt ran his hands through his hair, trying to calm his breathing. She had to come back. She had to. She had his daughter.

This fight had been bad, worse than any other than he could remember. When Ellie had seen the news coverage of Shaw’s shanking in prison, she’d turned to him, horror etched across her face. She hadn’t even needed to ask if it was him. She’d just known that he’d ordered it.

He tried to get her to understand, to see that he’d only done what he had to do. Shaw had his initial parole hearing coming up soon. If he so much as breathed a whiff of freedom, not only was their entire shop and crew in danger, but so were their lives and Margot’s. He was just taking a necessary precaution.

But she’d not wanted to hear any of it. She’d marched into Margot’s room, throwing her clothes and toys into a bag before hefting her out of bed and marching her out to her car, strapping her into her booster seat while she was still sound asleep. Ellie hadn’t so much as said a word to him as she drove off. Of course she’d ignored every call and text from him since that time.

He’d taken to riding past her father’s house daily. Her Shokai Fourier was always there, but he was never lucky enough to catch a glimpse of her or Margot in the yard. It had been nine days since he’d seen his kid, and he was getting desperate. He didn’t know what to do.

He sat along the edge of the cliff, watching the waves crash along. It wasn’t calming him tonight. Nothing was going to calm him. He didn't know how long he sat there, but eventually he heard a car engine approaching behind him. He would have known that paint job in his sleep. The engine quieted and he felt Ellie approaching him, sitting down next to him, almost close enough to reach out and touch. Almost.

“This is it, isn’t it?” he asked, staring out over the Pacific, inhaling the salt of the sea air.

“Colt… I can’t raise her in a home where killing someone is an acceptable solution to a problem. You had to know I wouldn’t be able to stand by you when you ordered that hit.”

Her words stung, burned his soul. Of course he’d known that. She’d always had her lines her morals didn’t allow her to cross. But how did she expect him to just sit there and let a threat to the safety of his family potentially walk free?

“Aren’t you going to say anything?” she asked. He could hear the tears in her voice, but he couldn’t bring himself to look at her, to see revulsion and disgust in the place of love and trust.

“What is there to say? Nothing I can do will make you come back.”

He heard her sigh before he felt her fingers, tiny and gentle against the back of his hand. He turned his hand over and threaded their fingers together more out of habit than anything. He knew her well enough to know that this wasn’t a gesture of love or hope.

“Colt, I’ll always love you, but…”

“I know, Ellie.”

“Are you even sorry?”

He paused, thinking over her question. He knew what she wanted to hear, but he’d always respected her too much to attempt to placate her with pretty sounding lies. “I don’t regret it at all,” he finally said, “I did it for both of you.”

She didn’t recoil from him at that. He hadn’t said anything she didn’t already know in her soul anyway. She’d always understood him in ways others just couldn’t. After all she was just like him. Just like him in so many ways.

They were only really different in one key way. She tried to pretend that there was a way to live the life they did and to be “good,” to keep to some sort of moral code. He knew that wasn’t the case. Or maybe she was just a better person than him. It was hard to tell right now, when he felt so hollow and drained.

“We’ll work out times for you to see Margot,” she said after a few minutes of silence. “I think we probably both want to keep lawyers out of this.”

Colt just grunted in acknowledgement. Ellie gave his hand a little squeeze before she tugged her hand free. She pushed herself up off the ground and walked back to her car. He couldn’t bring himself to watch her drive away, so he just stared ahead as he listened to her ignition start.

It was goodbye. He knew she’d never be back.

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Paint is one of the last steps of any car project. While every part of a restoration is important, the most visible element is paint. It’s the first thing you notice when walking up to a car. The bad thing is, paint comes toward the end of the project. Car projects start out with great ambition and seemingly endless time, but suddenly, a year has gone by. The boundless energy felt at the beginning—not to mention the budget—has faded, and you’re chomping at the bit to finish the car. Of all the tasks done in a restoration, the one place where shortcuts and budget cutbacks are usually taken is paint. Much of the money has been spent on the drivetrain and the goodies for it; wheels, brakes, and suspension also eat up the budget. Then you start looking into costs for paint, and it’s a shock!

This is when it’s time to take a breath and slow down, because paint can make or break a project. Approach the paint process with the same perseverance and enthusiasm that was felt at the beginning, because good paint doesn’t have to cost a fortune. A basic, quality paintjob done in a professional shop will start at $10,000, so doing it yourself can save thousands. The materials for your paint can run from $900 for budget paint to $4,000 or more for professional-quality products. For this project, we needed a pro-quality paint that was easy to use. We had heard lots of good things about Axalta’s Cromax line, which offers both waterborne and solvent-based paints. Axalta’s products have a reputation for great coverage with minimal coats, and that user-friendly guidance was perfect for an ambitious project like this.

It’s been a long road for our 1968 Valiant, which started life in Popular Hot Rodding magazine in 2012. It’s gone from a running $2,800 slant-six–powered Craigslist deal to a thumping sleeper with a Mopar freak’s dream drivetrain: a 650hp, 500ci Indy Maxx aluminum wedge, TCI TorqueFlite 727, and a Strange Engineering S60 with a Detroit Truetrac diff. Before turning our attention to cosmetics, the Valiant ran a traction-limited best of 11.25 at 121 mph at Fontana’s quarter-mile on a pair of 26×8-inch M&H Racemaster slicks.

Project Valiant then moved to Mopar Muscle magazine, where Motech Performance relocated the battery to the trunk using an Odyssey battery and parts from Speedway Motors. The company also installed the Stinger hoodscoop to accommodate the induction system for the dual-quad FiTech EFI. While the motor was out, the engine bay was rehabbed with a coat of Sunfire yellow, and the undercarriage was cleaned up and painted with Eastwood Extreme Chassis Black. The suspension was given a new life with a Reilly Motorsports AlterKtion front suspension and a Street Lynx triangulated four-link rear suspension. Wilwood Dynalite brakes provide the stopping power for all that brute strength and US Car Tool subframe connectors add extra stability. TTI headers and exhaust round out the goodies under the car.

Geoff Gates of Alloy Motors in Oakland, California, knows exactly what goes into a good paintjob. He grew up in his dad’s body shop in Detroit. “You can’t cheap out. Good materials and good prep make a job that looks good, but most of all, will last,” Geoff told us. As a trained artist and a Mopar specialist, Geoff identified subtle body changes that would work with our sleeper theme. He moved the factory side-marker lights up on the panels and dropped the side trim down to line up with the door handles. Geoff also straightened and smoothed the panels of the Valiant.

As long as you do the research and follow the steps, there’s no reason you can’t paint your car at home. If you’ve never painted before or have limited painting experience, the trick to knowing how to paint is to practice. Start by testing your spray gun and paint on masking paper taped to the wall. Practice moving the gun using a slow, steady motion. Try painting on an unneeded hood or fender. Once you feel comfortable with your results, it’s time to paint your car. You want a paint that is easy to use. Research the paint you’re thinking of using and find out what other people are saying about it. It’s also critical to have the tech sheet for each product being used. These tech sheets will explain how the products should be mixed and applied.

Painting a car always takes longer than planned, so take that into account. The worst time to start painting is at night after a long day of prepping the car. Plan on getting all the masking and prep work done the day before you paint, and make sure the booth is clean. Use tape and masking materials designed for auto paint. Don’t use newspapers and house-paint tape.

Make sure you have everything needed for the job. Get all the paint products organized and the spray guns ready. Then start painting first thing in the morning. Paint when your head is clear and your mind is sharp. By painting in the daytime, there’s less chance of bugs getting in the paint. Lay out your products and tools before you start so you don’t have to look for anything after you begin spraying. One trick to ensure everything is mixed correctly is to draw marks on the graduated scale of the mixing cup for each of the components before pouring the product. That way, it’s easy to see exactly which measuring marks to pour each product to, as you’re pouring.

We’ve set up the car in the booth and thoroughly cleaned it with wax and grease remover. Take care to mask everything very neatly before spraying any paint. We also wet the floor to keep down dust. Any dust that has settled on the car is removed by lightly running a tack cloth over the surface.

We start with Cromax DTM Epoxy Primer. This will seal up all the bare metal, bodywork, and what’s left of the factory paint. Before pouring primer, mix it extremely well. The solids in primers collect on the bottom of the can and need to be mixed back in. Use a graduated-scale mixing cup to measure out the paint.

Refer to the tech sheet and measure out the right amount of activator. Use the proper activator for the temperatures you’re spraying in, and take the time to mix the products very thoroughly. Alloy Motors’s Geoff Gates has a secret process: sing Happy Birthday two times in his head while mixing. Next, strain the paint. It removes any chunks that might clog the gun.

Use a primer spray gun or set up your regular spray gun with a big (1.7 or higher) needle, tip, and cap. You want to get heavy coats with lots of build thickness for block-sanding.

Tape masking paper to the wall and check the pattern before spraying the car. Use the setting in the tech sheet as a guide and fine-tune the spray pattern and air pressure for a full, even pattern. If the pattern is uneven, remove the tip, cap, and needle and check them for any debris.

Start by priming the edges and move on to covering the large areas with a smooth motion. By hitting the edges first, you won’t interrupt your spray pattern on the large areas.

You’re shooting for nice, even coats. Most primers, sealers, and clearcoats are going to need a 50-percent overlap. The tech sheet will tell you how the coat needs to be sprayed. Here, we’re spraying one medium wet coat.

Get all the surfaces covered, even those hidden in the jambs. You’ll have to adjust the spray pattern and the air pressure for some of these smaller areas.

We followed up the epoxy a few hours later with several coats of Cromax LE3404S Primer Filler, applying two wet coats. This is where the paint goes on heavy, but not heavy enough to run. The primer filler will give us some room to block-sand it all smooth and level.

The car has a coat of epoxy primer and two coats of primer filler. This particular primer will need to dry for at least three hours, but to ensure complete curing of the products in most temperatures, it’s better to let it cure overnight before sanding.

Spray a very light, even layer of guidecoat on each area before you block-sand. Guidecoat is a contrasting color that will show the high and low areas and help keep the bodylines straight as you sand.

We use tape along the body lines to keep everything crisp and straight as we the block the primer. Use the biggest block you can fit on the panel and block in several directions at a 45-degree angle. A 180-grit will shave the primer down, leaving the surface nice and flat.

Any imperfections will show up as you block. Next, tape the other side of the lines and repeat the process. Once you pull the tape, you can see the lines and tune up as needed. We liked the Cromax primer filler because it blocked easy and didn’t gum up the paper.

At this point, we’ve primed and blocked the car with 180-grit, re-primed with the medium build primer, and blocked the car again with 220-grit. The car was sealed with white Cromax LE3410S Premier Sealer and wet-sanded with 400-grit. Next, we’ll clean all the surfaces, re-mask the car, and it will be ready for color basecoat and clear!

We’re using Axalta Cromax EZ basecoat, which keeps us compliant here in California. It’s a waterborne basecoat, but mixes and sprays very much like solvent-based product. Chrysler Sunfire Yellow is the original color of our car, and Axalta’s match with our earlier engine bay paintjob from four years ago was a perfect match. Don’t forget to strain the paint when pouring it into the spray cup.

Test the spray pattern and adjust your gun to an even, wide pattern. (Always refer to the tech sheet for the air-pressure setting.) Spray out a few passes on paper to get an idea of the coverage. Some colors are more transparent than others and will require more overlap. We started on the hood, and worked from the center using a 50-percent overlap.

Once the hood is shot, we worked back across the fender, spraying a medium coat. Try to keep a wet edge. Plan your “paint path” in advance, so once you’re painting, you know how you’ll get around the car. The tech sheet will explain exactly how the product needs to be applied and how long to wait between coats.

Two coats and about an hour later, the car was in basecoat and ready for clearcoat. Refer to the tech sheet for the dry time needed before applying the clearcoat. Water-based products require longer dry times.

Geoff reports that the Cromax Premier LE8700 clearcoat is easy to apply. Because it’s a catalyzed urethane, it’s essential to mix the right ratio of products.

After thoroughly mixing and straining the clearcoat, it’s time to spray. Use a slow, even application and a 50-percent overlap. Depending on the activator, some clearcoats will continue to flow out after you’re done spraying. Look closely after applying the first two coats. Did the orange peel flow out? If not, increase the overlap or slow your gun speed.

We’re applying three coats of clear on the car, waiting between each coat for the flash time indicated in the tech sheet. There’s a fine line between just enough and too much clearcoat. The sides of the car are more prone to runs than the top surfaces, so watch closely as you’re spraying and adjust your gun speed accordingly.

The paint is finished and the Valiant looks great! But no matter how careful you are, there will be areas of orange peel and bits of dust. These must be sanded and buffed. Geoff uses a spray bottle of water with a drop of soap in it. Wet-sand using short strokes with 1,000-grit paper wrapped around a hard foam block.

Geoff uses a rubber squeegee to dry each area as he works. An even sheen is what you’re aiming for. Spray water on the paper and surface constantly while you work.

Use care on sharp edges, as they sand through the quickest. Geoff sands the entire car with 1,000-grit to a flat sheen, washes it, then follows up with 1,200-, 1,500-, 2,000-, then 2,500-grit. Basically, all you’re doing after 1,000-grit is removing the scratches from each sanding.

Once the car is fully sanded and washed, it’s time for compounding and polishing. You’ll need a variable-speed polisher, foam pads, compound, and polish. Spray a little water to lube up the compound pad and lay down a thin bead of compound on the surface. Start the polisher at a slow speed so it picks up the compound.

Work slowly. Don’t burn through, and be careful on those edges! We compound the whole car back to a shine, wash it, and repeat the process with the polish. Make sure to use a softer foam pad for the polish. The polish is an even finer grit and the clearcoat comes back to life, only much smoother.

Here’s the most rewarding part of the painting process: the end result! It’s been a long journey watching the aged paint on this car transform into this pristine surface—a high-quality finish that will last a lifetime.

Materials

Item: description: qyt.: cost: Axalta Cromax DTM V-2940S gray epoxy primer 1 gallon $300.80 Axalta Cromax DTM V-2905S mid-temp activator 1 gallon $91.55 Axalta Cromax Premier LE3404S primer filler 2 gallons $517.20 Axalta Cromax Premier LE1175S activator 3 quarts $381.60 Axalta Cromax Premier LE3410S sealer white 1 gallon $224.10 Axalta Cromax EZBasecoat Sunfire Yellow 1 gallon $724.50 Axalta Cromax EZ240 thinner 1 gallon $175.50 Axalta Cromax Premier LE1275S reactive reducer 1 gallon $105.95 Axalta Cromax Premier LE8700 clearcoat 1 gallon $281.40 Axalta Cromax Premier LE1009S activator 1 qt $125.00 Axalta Cromax Final Klean V-3921S cleaner 1 gallon $75.55 3M Perfect It Machine polish compound 1 quart $38.00 3M Perfect It Ultra Fine polish 1 quart $52.99

5 Tips For Better Paintjobs

1. Which Spray Gun? Not all spray guns are the same. Try to have two spray guns: one for primer and one for base- and clearcoats. A primer gun has a larger nozzle size to accommodate the thick viscosity of primer.

The primer gun is on the left and the basecoat gun is on the right. The primer gun has a much bigger nozzle opening. That way the thicker paint flows better and applies more smoothly and evenly than it would if sprayed with the basecoat spray gun.

2. Test Your Products and Process If you’re using unfamiliar products, find an old fender or hood and test them. Find out how the paint sprays and know what to expect before you step into the paint booth. Apply the products just like you would on the car. If any problems come up, you can solve them before you waste material and time on the car. This is also the time to test your color. Find out your paint’s coverage and plan out how many coats will need to be applied.

3. It’s Not Just the Paint You’ll need more than paint and tools. Here’s a basic list:

Tack cloths to wipe down the surface before painting

Graduated mixing cups, strainers, and stir sticks

Respirator, disposable paint suit, and nitrile gloves

Wax and grease remover, or precleaner

Lacquer thinner or acetone for cleaning spray guns

Automotive paint tape and masking paper

Spray bottle for water-sanding

4. Do This Right Before You Spray! Don’t forget to lightly run the tack cloth over the surface after precleaning and before spraying any paint. Tacking is also one last chance to examine the surface for problems. It’s a big surface and things get overlooked, like a bit of sanding debris that was missed when precleaning or water that splashed on the rocker.

5. The Right Temp When ordering paint, know the temperatures you’ll be working in. Many paint products need reducer and/or activator for the specific painting conditions. If it’s cold, you’ll need faster products. Slower products are needed for warmer painting temps.

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A self-owned vehicle can become the source of pride and joy for the auto owner before long. Sure, it serves all transportation purposes perfectly and provides invaluable assistance to the entire family. One has to keep it well maintained so that the priced vehicle continues to operate for a long time. Repainting the body may become imperative after a period as well. Driving into a body shop or dealership can provide one with many insights about the best way to enhance the auto body's exterior and interior. Many car owners have been impressed with automotive ceramic coating in Pittsburgh and Oakland, PA. Almost all vehicle servicing centers offer the service today. It is advisable to make inquiries and learn the associated facts instead of asking for a ceramic coating simply because a competitor has considered it. Making an informed decision instead of doing it on a whim can be worthwhile. One would be pleased to learn that: Ceramic coating for an automobile is a polymer-based solution that is applied to the body of a car. This chemical is usually applied painstakingly by hand to protect the original paint perfectly. It blends properly with the underlying paint and creates an additional protective layer on the automobile. The chemical binding that ensues protects the automobile effectively from outside elements while keeping the original factory paint intact. True, most auto owners and detailing professionals liken it to the conventional films used to protect the paint, but the ceramic coating happens to be similar to waxing the car. It is a sort of alternative to waxing, though. The purpose behind the application of this coat is o prevent dust, dirt, grime, and pollutants from settling on the painted surface of the car and marring its appearance. Many body shops sell it as nano-ceramic coating and offer it as a permanent or semi-permanent solution for paint protection. The extent of protection depends on the chemical polymer utilized on the car. While the application of this protective layer is well endorsed by experts, one may be doubtful about its efficacy, especially when the said car is not used in rough conditions. Such a query makes it imperative for the car owner to know about the multiple benefits of such an application over the painted body of the automobile. It is indeed interesting to note the following: UV Ray Protection- The thin layer of ceramic coating will be able to thwart the assault of UV Rays on a sunny day. This helps one to prevent oxidation of the paint components. The automobile would not look faded or dull as a result. This is important for automobiles that are usually parked outside. No Staining-Most cars have numerous stains on the exterior surface. This is more frequent in highly polluted areas where the contaminants filled with acid may bind with chemicals in the paint. The appearance of the automobile takes a beating affecting its value. A reputed body shop will also be able to do effective dent repair in Pittsburgh and Fox Chapel, PA, without repainting.

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