50 Dollar Paint Job

[rennch]

http://rickwrench.com/50dollarpaint.html

Pretty amazing. I would definitely do it to a car I was going to race.

[azasadny]

That's cool!!

[mschuep]

Wow, that is impressive...

[Dan in Pasadena]

I've seen another link to a job like that with a yellow Mopar if I remember correctly. No reason it won't work and work well for some. I wouldn't do it to a car I really cared a lot about, but I wouldn't hesitate to do it if I needed paint on more of a project type car/truck and couldn't afford a more expensive job.

By the way, a remodeler's trick that would have kept the owner from having to use rattle can blue stripe paint? He says there is no way to keep the blue from bleeding under the tape, oh yes there is! Apply the tape where you want it. He's right that paint will bleed under, so using the white and a narrow paint brush, paint the edge of the tape where the blue WOULD HAVE bled under and let it dry. THEN paint the blue. The blue has no place to go now. When the tape is stripped it will leave an EXACT line with no bleed-under. I've used this many times in house remodeling jobs.

[rennch]

I think it would be really cool to try with a race car, since that doesn't matter much.

[many944s]

Great post! I may definitely have to try that on the next racer!

edit... ^ ha! nice double up

-Nick

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Very cool indeed. I wonder if roll-on type application would work as well with automotive-grade paints. . .

I have some definite interest in this.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Roll-on and brush-on with automotive grade paints will work in the wheel wells and engine compartment. There have been a few threads that have touched on it. I know you have to thin the paint differently, but I don't know how. In those textured areas it would work easily and with a minimum of masking compared to spraying.

[rouxroux]

Many early cars were rolled/brushed. In fact, the old Dodge Brothers dealership here painted them @ the dealership then had a parking area on their roof where the paint would dry/bake. The only brushed car I ever had was a $50 1960 Chevy station wagon that must have had Latex paint on it, as it would leave powder on you whenever you'd rub against it. (also had a cool J.C. Whitney floor shifter instead of 3 on the tree, and a garden hose in the oil breather to try to channel the smoke away).

***the shifter was scavenged/stripped out of it at the end of it's life, then was filmed being pushed off the top of a limestone quarry (or so I'm told***

[bigchillcar]

wow. might be an alternative for re-doing the front bumpers on our 911's at least..for removing chips in like, black paint? i dunno..i can get it shot for about $100 anyway..

[Dan in Pasadena]

Ryan, Your 964 has a plastic bumper cover, doesn't it? I don't think this would work on that application because you'd need van additive (not sure what it's called) that gives the paint SOME elasticity when it suffers minor bumps. Other wise the paint would crack.

[bigchillcar]

ahhh..thanks, dan. spray booth for me then.

[bigchillcar]

and, dan...ya just had to say '964', didn't ya.. lol.

[notfarnow]

There's someone over in the 911 technical forum who's started his 911 with black rustoleum.

I did my neighbors '72 westfalia this way a few years ago and it turned out really well. Sure makes finding touch-up paint easy.

[Zeke]

Model T's were painted with a camel hair brush. The paint was not today's paint, obviously, and flowed very nicely. In order to hand apply paint, it has to have time to flow, which is to say also collect dust. A straight enamel, not acrylic, of the old fashioned order, does this well. Takes forever to set up an dry, but levels very well.

So, I would say use very slow, hot weather thinner and you could do this in a very clean and calm environment using today's material. It's kinda like the differnce between varnish and polyurethane.

[cashflyer]

About 12 years ago I painted a pickup with store brand exterior enamel. It's similar to the Rustoleum shown on the Corvair, but by using the store brand I was able to have it tinted to match my sample.

After a few years, the paint had lightened a little bit... but hell, it was a just an old work truck. Who cares.

[TSNAPCRACKLEPOP]

i did this to a ford pickup a couple years ago, came out presentable for an old truck.

a dark blue truck.

you know haw the paint fell off those fords for a while.

[fingpilot]

I know somebody that has a Corvair that is about ready for paint. Seems to me he is even on this board. Maybe he should give this a shot. As I remember, he got rid of all of his hired help at his job, so he might not have enough time to devote to the project....

I'm trying to remember what he does for a living......

[Dueller]

I have seen a car that was done with this method which turned out suprisingly well. However, it is extremely labor intensive with the wet sanding and buffing required to get a slick,shiny finished product