Going to rent a booth and spray the car myself.

Thanks for the PM's guys.

Hurst

 

Post pics Hurst I would love to see!

 

You said in the build thread it already was a 50 footer

 

you can do it.best of luck .wish my dad was as cool as you.

 

I will. I've painted a couple cars before and they came out really nice. I have a couple paint guns and some tools of the trade. Just no place to paint anything since I came down here to Fla.

This was a 67 Chevelle I had in Md. I painted this one. This tone of red is really very easy to paint and my son's LX is very damn close to this color. Wont be hard to paint at all. Painting a black car is a mother,.. any little flaw or imperfection will show. Much less block sanding when doing red.






And this is my old 96 GT. I've painted this car twice. This pic was done the day after I painted it the first time back in 2002.


Hurst

 

Nice!

 

Drool! Is white a easy color? I really want my coupe white or Torch red...idk
Looks very sexy though!

Awesome job on those!

 

Alot has to do with the type of paint your using, how you mix it. A lacquer will usually come out really nice and smooth over small spots that you didnt sand out evenly. But it will require an ass load of buffing and rubbing out to get it to shine and requires at least 12 hour in between coats. Urethane paints are the cheapest and easiest to apply. They will be dry to the touch within 15 mins and can apply coats within 2 - 3 hours. You can mask and tape it within 6 hours with out fear of pulling the paint off with the tape. Enamels are also easy to apply but only need about 15 mins between coats. They look great when you first apply them but shine best when using a base coat/clear coat set up.

Brighter colors whites, yellows, lime green, orange, bright reds are easy colors to paint. They dont show waves or ripples in body work that you didnt quite get straight before you applied the paint as badly as darker colors will. Block sanding with primer will show you high and low spots. Used spotting filler to fill in these spots. Your supposed to use spotting filler over bondo as well but I have seen many who will paint directly on top of bondo. Bondo always has tiny little bubbles in it that with out the right paint will show through in a paint job.

I am by no means an expert on paint and body work. And some of what I posted above could be wrong. Use it only as a guide. If you want to try it experiment on an old hood or car door first. Examine how it comes out when done. Experiment with different techniques. I'm sure there are forums online to help folks learn who have never done it before. I painted my first car back in 1994 and got my motivation by reading an article from HotRodding magazine.

Hurst

 

I read an article in HRM once on painting....It showed how nice a paint job can come out if you use a roller and regular house paint. Oddly enough, it came out looking fairly nice. LMAO I was gonna do it....It only cost em like $200 to do it.....Then I thought about Maaco.

 

Stay away form maaco. the one on palm road has gone to shit. I used to take cars to them the last one was so fucked up not even funny