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Rather than simply placing the Cervini's fender vents in the fender, Tracy molds them into the fender for a smoother look. The fender vents are bonded to the metal and smoothed with filler.

After a quick shot of primer, the fender vents look factory stock. The rest of the body kit is bolted to the truck and prepped for paint.

Tracy uses DuPont ChromaSystem basecoat/ clearcoat products on ThunderTruck. The first color to be applied is the gray for the color-break stripe.

The weapon of choice is the SATA Jet HVLP gun.

Gray is applied in the approximate area of the stripe, making the paint broad enough to allow for determining the exact placement of the stripe.

Tracy makes transferring the rendering to the actual vehicle look easy. After careful measuring, the final location for the stripe is located and masked off in order to lay down DuPont's Vermillion Red.

Three light coats of Vermillion Red basecoat are applied to the bottom portion of the truck, providing excellent coverage over the new body panels.

After the red dries, the entire portion is masked off for application of the DuPont ChromaBase 99K Black.

Within minutes of applying the paint, Tracy removes all masking tape and paper from the vehicle.

As the masking tape is removed, the color break stripe emerges. The finished product is just like the rendering. ThunderTruck, with its basecoat applied, now awaits stripes on the top and bottom portion of the color-break stripe and clearcoat application. Before the clearcoat is laid down, the entire paint booth is cleaned and sealed so as to eliminate dust particles making their home in the clear.