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Kenneth Gear

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Off topic - $50 paint job
« on: July 08, 2007, 17:47:01 »
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

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Chad

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Re: Off topic - $50 paint job
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2007, 19:31:14 »
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.


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Jonny B

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Re: Off topic - $50 paint job
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2007, 19:45:38 »
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!!

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al_lieffring

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Re: Off topic - $50 paint job
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2007, 22:13:39 »
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.


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Douglas

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Re: Off topic - $50 paint job
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2007, 05:34:55 »
Thank heavens he didn't need metal work. That would've set him back another twenty bucks.  :)

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doitwright

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Re: Off topic - $50 paint job
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2007, 05:59:52 »
Certainly looks better than the "Professional" paint job the previous owner of my SL had done.

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