<\/a><\/p>\nThe hood was discovered to have strange, tiny waterspot-like blotches all over. They are only visible up close and under certain lighting, but that is no excuse and I decided to continue with having it repainted. Originally, the hood was going to be the single body panel that would not be touched.<\/p>\n
Now the entire car will have a new PPG Global clearcoat. Interestingly, I also learned today that Mazda used single-stage paint for all the solid colors of the RX-7: Brilliant Black, Chaste White, and Vintage Red (only Montego Blue, Competition Yellow Mica, and Silver Stone Metallic came in 2-stage with clear). I was never a fan of Mazda’s factory paint to begin with, but this detail further justifies all the effort that is being exerted into essentially “converting” the paintwork to a modern, high-quality 2-stage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It is now coming to the end of the 5th week since I first dropped the RX-7 off at the body shop. Good work takes time, which is why I have been compliant and patient… but believe me, it’s been an anxious wait. I swung by the shop again today on my way home from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3748"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3756,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions\/3756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}