Off topic - $50 paint job

[Kenneth Gear]

I thought I'd share this site I ran across of a guy who painted his Corvair in his drivewy for $50.00 using rustoleum and a roller.

Looks much better than I would have expected.

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

Ken G
1971 280 SL Silver/red
1969 BMW 2800 (sedan)

[Chad]

Amazing looking results.  Surprisingly it seems to have held up well at eight months.
Who will try wallpapering their headliner?

See you all at Home Depot.


1967 230SL

[Jonny B]

Most amazing indeed, this is the kind of thing it would be really cool to see up close and real, pictures and a computer monitor just don't capture the detail. Still looks dang good!!

Jonny B
1967 250SL Auto

[al_lieffring]

Brush painting and wet sanding with steel wool was the standard repair procedure for repainting cars before WWII.

This is a page from the 1926 Sears and Roebuck Catalogue



Other than whale oil being the base of the enamel from that era, the Rust-Oleum paint would be basicly the same thing as what would have been sold back then.

I had a friend in high school that took 1/2 gallon of Rust-Oleum and spray painted his Bug-eye Sprite with it using Coleman lantern fuel for thinner. It was a good thing the color he chose was orange because the resulting finish had a matching orange peel texture.


Al Lieffring
66 230Sl
Jones'n for a new gas tank

[Douglas]

Thank heavens he didn't need metal work. That would've set him back another twenty bucks.  

Douglas Kim
New York
USA

[doitwright]

Certainly looks better than the "Professional" paint job the previous owner of my SL had done.

1970 280SL Light Ivory
1972 911 Targa