Meet Lola...
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Meet Lola...
My original black and silver 2007 Buddy
After a weekend transformation.
After a weekend transformation.
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jfrost2 wrote:What brand of paint did you use? The interior looks great being the same color as the exterior! It looks very smooth too. Did you sand the interior down? Or just clean and spray?
Krylon! It is awesome! ScooterNewbie and I painted his Italia with some other brand, I fogot what it was.
viewtopic.php?t=4150
With his, we had to wash and wet sand the parts first. With Krylon, the instructions say just to clean it and spray. It worked great. Although, if I were to do it again, I would sand the inside parts . Those parts are sort of textured plastic. The paint kind of clumps together. So I think if I sand first, it would stick better. To fix it, I just sprayed more coats to fill in the valleys. About 6 coats.
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Awesome job. Did you sand this time or just go straight to paint?
(BTW, moving this to the Scooter Gallery...)
(BTW, moving this to the Scooter Gallery...)
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MikieTaps wrote:that looks awesome, I am looking at doing something similar... how did you do the racing stripes?
Well, I painted the whole thing white first. Then I took some vinyl tape from pep boys which gave me the pinstripe-ish look then pretty much masked the middle. A few coats later....
This is a picture I took before I painted the whole thing.
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ericalm wrote:Awesome job. Did you sand this time or just go straight to paint?
(BTW, moving this to the Scooter Gallery...)
Krylon told me I didn't have to. So I just cleaned it and started painting. Although, the inner parts of the buddy where it is kind of textured plastic, I should have sanded first. The paint clumped together.
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You guys should send these to Scoot! Mag's reader rides section. And to Genuine!
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Nice painting job. I havent even taken delivery of my Blur yet and I am already photoshopping different color schemes to paint her over the winter.
I may be interested in your Shop jacket, 5'-10" 170lb guy, 34"-36" waist depending on brand of pants maker, with average build, would it fit me well? If so, shoot me an asking price with shipping to 60107 (Streamwood, IL - residential address)
I may be interested in your Shop jacket, 5'-10" 170lb guy, 34"-36" waist depending on brand of pants maker, with average build, would it fit me well? If so, shoot me an asking price with shipping to 60107 (Streamwood, IL - residential address)
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All the chrome came with the scoot when I bought it. Still have to order the rear rack. I really need it too. Too many grocery store trips. Not cuz I need stuff, but I pretend I need stuff so I can scoot.KRUSTYburger wrote:...you don't have the chrome rear rack... are you planning on getting one, or just leaving the stock? Just curious. LOOKIN' GOOD!!!
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Looks good , Where did you get the front fender cromed at and how much ?ervine13 wrote:MikieTaps wrote:that looks awesome, I am looking at doing something similar... how did you do the racing stripes?
Well, I painted the whole thing white first. Then I took some vinyl tape from pep boys which gave me the pinstripe-ish look then pretty much masked the middle. A few coats later....
This is a picture I took before I painted the whole thing.
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http://www.scooterworks.com/Chrome_Fron ... 02C291.cfmDodgeBoy wrote:Looks good , Where did you get the front fender cromed at and how much ?
$40!
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Those pics are great and the custom paint on your Buddy is "off the hook". I see you live in L.A. so for me to try to customize a Buddy like yours would be a little cheesy on my part (I live in the San Fernando/Santa Clarita Valleys area); but damn it if I didn't like that color pattern as well. Hopefully when I get my scooting on (waiting feverishly on a Pamplona) I never have to bump into you if I do the mod. Or else we'll have to have a dueling Buddy performance. I'll be the retarded kid... oops I meant mentally challenged.
[hopefully that Deliverance bit isn't a little too politically incorrect for this forum - if so, I apologize]
[hopefully that Deliverance bit isn't a little too politically incorrect for this forum - if so, I apologize]
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Hey, those custom Buddys would totally fly in the SFV! Can;t speak for the Santa Clarita Valley. Must be more rural than I thought!
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If you've been to or at least heard of Magic Mountain (in Valencia) then you know where SCV is (at least the northwest portion of it). SCV is between the 5 and 14 freeways, and it's a nice little valley with some little hills and some little curves here and there. There's an old road that leads from the SFV into the SCV and incidently enough it's called The Old Road. I plan on taking that on my routes back and forth between the two valleys... when I get my scooter... dot dot dot...ericalm wrote:Hey, those custom Buddys would totally fly in the SFV! Can;t speak for the Santa Clarita Valley. Must be more rural than I thought!
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I actually Google mapped SCV today after reading your thread about getting your scooter. Looks like some nice canyon roads up there by the lake. I'm planning on going scooter exploring up there some time soon!BeetleGoose wrote:If you've been to or at least heard of Magic Mountain (in Valencia) then you know where SCV is (at least the northwest portion of it). SCV is between the 5 and 14 freeways, and it's a nice little valley with some little hills and some little curves here and there. There's an old road that leads from the SFV into the SCV and incidently enough it's called The Old Road. I plan on taking that on my routes back and forth between the two valleys... when I get my scooter... dot dot dot...ericalm wrote:Hey, those custom Buddys would totally fly in the SFV! Can;t speak for the Santa Clarita Valley. Must be more rural than I thought!
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ervine13 wrote:ericalm wrote:Awesome job. Did you sand this time or just go straight to paint?
(BTW, moving this to the Scooter Gallery...)
Krylon told me I didn't have to. So I just cleaned it and started painting. Although, the inner parts of the buddy where it is kind of textured plastic, I should have sanded first. The paint clumped together.
Which Krylon did you use? Was it the plastic?
http://www.krylon.com/products/
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Yes. For platic.katiejonezy wrote: Which Krylon did you use? Was it the plastic?
http://www.krylon.com/products/
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Just got my scoot 2 day ago and I can definitely relate to this. I went to the grocery for nothing! HA!ervine13 wrote:All the chrome came with the scoot when I bought it. Still have to order the rear rack. I really need it too. Too many grocery store trips. Not cuz I need stuff, but I pretend I need stuff so I can scoot.KRUSTYburger wrote:...you don't have the chrome rear rack... are you planning on getting one, or just leaving the stock? Just curious. LOOKIN' GOOD!!!