...To fit the plastic mesh covers for the vents, the hood openings had to be opened up with some 80-grit (and smoothed with 120). | 
The Firebird had a bad spring on the passenger door handle, so I called Year One and had them send over one for each side just to be safe (p/n H65LH, H65RH). These babies go for $43.95 a piece. Melvin likes to paint them to match the body instead of leaving them black like stock, and I certainly wasn't going to protest. |  |
With the fenders, bumper covers, hood, headlight covers, mirrors and door handles removed the car is taped off | 
...This is another part of the prep work that seems to take much longer than actually spraying the car. The wheels/tires are removed and the car is jacked up for better access to the rocker panels... | 
...One part of the prep work I didn't mention was the work that went into straightening these pieces... |
...Being so low to the ground, the rockers are a magnet for all sorts of damaging debris and road hazards. | 
House of Kolor's first stage is its Ko-Seal Primer Sealer, which in this case is white. | 
...There are four parts sealer, 1 part catalyst, and 1 part reducer. Steve makes up about 3 quarts total in order to cover the car twice. Since it's wintertime in the Northeast, medium reducer is also used... |