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$50 Paint Job

Texas53

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Have any of you seen this? My truck is already at the painter's, so too late for me. But, I would have liked to have given it a try. Afterall, if there is one thing I have, it is more time than money. I wonder if Rust-Oleum comes in burnt orange.

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


Happy Thanksgiving everyone, Mike
 

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Too Cool, Mike!

Well, everyone~ Happy T-Day, and believe me, there will be an AD painted this way too! To heck with the rattle-rattle, give me a roller!!!!:D
 
Too cool indeed

I... LIKE it. Looks pretty cool to me. Wonder how it would come out using actual auto paint? I'm going to try it and see what happens. Get my body shop buddy to mix me up some paint and Voila. Since I'm going for the flat look, I imagine that I won't be needing to be doing all that polishing either. I just KNEW that Ziggy would love this one.:rolleyes: C'mon Zig, don't let us down. It's been rattle rattle for so long that I just can't picture you rolling it out now:D.

Andy
 
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I've seen a lot of these paint jobs discussed on the web. The only thing I'd be concearned about is the rate at which the paint might fade.
 
Exactly

I like the faded look. In fact, since the truck came from an Old Navy store, it's flat/faded blue already. I have come to really like and admire the idea of the faded truck thing and envy the guys like Flipper that have that great "patina". Unfortunately, after the Old Navy store retired my truck to the parking lot, the vandals got to it and dented a few of the panels, so I need to do some body work and paint it again. Mine will be a driver/work truck. Something to have fun in and not worry about someone opening the door of their car into. The last project I did many years ago was a ground up '66 Mustang coupe. F**d was still stamping the sheet metal then and the car was mint when done with a beautiful black laquer paint job. I hated having to park it way far out in the parking lots and take up two spaces diagonal just to make sure nobody would bang into it. One day parked it at the beach in a regular spot. Came back to find a HUGE chunk taken out of the paint from someone's door opening up into it. Got hit one day and it went into the body shop. Went by to check on it and my buddy took it down and primered the whole thing as a surprise. He was planning on painting the whole car without telling me. Told him to paint it resale red. Two weeks after THAT beautiful paint job was done somebody keyed up the whole driver fender and door when I stopped in the deli for a sandwich. After he fixed it, I put a sign in the windshield and parked it in front of my office. It was gone in two weeks.

I am DONE with perfect paint jobs that you have to worry about all the time. I LOVE the idea of the "$50 paint job". NO worries. Just go out and enjoy the truck, park it wherever you want. Something happens to the paint, just roll out a little touch up and you're good to go. Sorry about the rant, buit it seems that nobody cares for your ride the way you do and there are a lot of inconsiderate and/or mean people around that I don't want to have to worry about when driving and enjoying the truck.

For me it will be a "$50 paint job" like the roll out job seen above or I'll call Zig and we can rattle, rattle on together. Anybody remember the stress that Boop's Dad went through with his paint job?

Andy
 
Why waste $50 on paint. You'll still get pissed when the grandkids stand on the fenders.

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For everything else, there's Mastercard!

That is PRICELESS! Thanks for sharing, Flipper!
 
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I agree with Chiro, Zig and Flipper. As one who went the "all out" route with my paint job, I won't do it again. My intention was to have something that my son and I could enjoy. We get some enjoyment from the truck but there is a certain amount of angst in having to be worried about hurting the paint job. I will probably sell my truck in the Spring and start over. If it is a good patina to start with I will just fix it mechanically (with my son's help) and go for it. If it needs a paint job I think I will give the roller a try. What do I have to lose except a little time. If that time is spent with my son it won't be wasted. After all, for me that is what it is all about. So, I think I have a plan.
I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving Day,
Gater
 
Actually my goal for the next one is a perfect truck.

Jaguar IFS and IRS, late model V8, perfect body gaps (I know chevy didn't ever build them like that....I'm willing to cut and weld to get it that way), perfect paint outside/inside/underside, and REALLY nice interior.

....and my wife is not going to drive it.
 
$ 50.00 Paint Jobs

Yep ;

YOU CAN DO THIS AT HOME and have it turn out better than a $500.00 job!

I've done it and seen it done many times before .

Use acrylic Enamel paints , they dont fade and they're easy to polish .

If you want the faded patina look , simplt lightly sand the entire job after a month or so , with 1,000 grit paper , not wetting it and you'll soon look like a faded original .

If you take a paint sample in to OSH , LEOWS etc. they'll easily match it up so look for an old dashboard ash tray in the color you want and GO for it ! :D

The biggest thing here is : you MUST let it flash off and this takes over a month before you even think about polishing , cutting etc.

I am glad to see you're using that Yenko Corvair site as the sample as there's now quite a few sites dedicated to this typ of job and few are quite this well done .
 
I'm cornfused

The article talked about drying time yet he rattle-canned the stripes and then buffed them in the same amount of time his 50/50 dried.... I may just stick with the rattle! I'm pretty good about laying down a smooth coat. Great article though! Just don't do the 3-D page! My eyes are STILL screwed!:p The only thing about the rattle is, you can rack up the $$$ in my beloved can. (I just won't keep track of the $$$):cool:

It'll look good though...
 
Gater!

Tailgater said:
I agree with Chiro, Zig and Flipper. As one who went the "all out" route with my paint job, I won't do it again. My intention was to have something that my son and I could enjoy. We get some enjoyment from the truck but there is a certain amount of angst in having to be worried about hurting the paint job. I will probably sell my truck in the Spring and start over. If it is a good patina to start with I will just fix it mechanically (with my son's help) and go for it. If it needs a paint job I think I will give the roller a try. What do I have to lose except a little time. If that time is spent with my son it won't be wasted. After all, for me that is what it is all about. So, I think I have a plan.
I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving Day,
Gater
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So G~ You ARE gonna get that G after all?
 
Zig,
The G truck got away from me it seems. There is still one in the bushes near here that I am working on. It is the Chevy that someone cut a sunroof into. I have yet to see it but am hopeful.
Gater
 
Sunroof Menories..

Back in 1967 a teacher of mine had a pristine 1952 Chevy DeLuxe Coupe with Slip 'N Slide POWERGILDE tranny and a nifty home made ' sunroof '

~ what it was was a hole sawed into the roof and hand leaded up with stained glass then a clear fibreglass patch added to water proof it ~ diriving this car down rural lanes in scenic New Hampshire was cool , the multitude of colors playing into the interior.......

Of course no one ever bothered tuning it up and I was young , not allowed to touch a teacher's car so one chilly January day it refused to start and a couple of years later it was towed out to that swampy field all New England farms have , to die amongst the other rare vintage cars & trucks..

What a waste .

Interesting that I was good enough to fix the tractors , fuel oil pumps and so on , but not a teacher's car :rolleyes:
 
Nate!

vwnate1 said:
Interesting that I was good enough to fix the tractors , fuel oil pumps and so on , but not a teacher's car :rolleyes:
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Nate! I'd be HONORED to have you work on MY truck!!!!:D Heck, I'd be honored to have you just stand next to my truck!:p
 
VERY interesting! thanks for the link mike! i may just try it too. there was an article in hot rod i believe where they did the same thing and were very pleased with the results.

jon
 
You know, there are a lot of folks out there using this technique for paint job competitions. mostly for ricers with a lot of fancy graphics and stuff. I have been planning on repainting both of my trucks using this technique.
 
I did not have time to read all the replies but I got the $50 job beat. Since my truck is a 'driver', I spent about $18 for 3 quarts of flat white RUSTOLEUM and it turned out ok. Everyone loves it................have people try to buy it all the time. Being white and flat, it does attract dirt and when it gets a little too dirty.......just tape it off and spray again! White hides any so-so bodywork too. But.....she aint a show truck......pulls my camper and hauls the firewood. Never heard the 'patina' word until someone said they liked that look on my truck................
 
Wouldn't rattle-can paint be thinned around this much? Is it my imagination, or did he skip the primer idea?
 
Hey guys, just checked out the original 'rustoleum' with a roller article. With my tow truck that I did not care really how it came out.......I used to SPRAY it with red rustoleum and I was good at thinning it with mineral spirits and spraying it and having it come out with no runs and having a great shine. It looked like a Centari paint job with almost no orange peel. But..........having no hardener like auto paint...it does fade faster than auto paint. Yes, rattle cans probably thinned close to the same but too small of a spray pattern and you come out with a 'zebra stripe' paint job. Another drawback to Rustoleum jobs is the drying time...........it must have bug pheromones(?) premixed into it cause flying bugs love it!
 
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