$50.00 paint job

[rodesmg]

i came across this link on how to paint your car for 50 buck https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1555133 i thought it might be of interest. i think i will pick up a fender at the bone yard and give it a try

 

[tony barnhill]

There ya go, keenan

 

[R6MGS]

very interesting......I am keepin that article for sure!

 

[jsneddon]

OK - so some of us are heathens but what the heck. I could see doing this on a runner.

A buddy and I painted his 47 foot houseboat with Imron one summer with rollers. Actually it was pretty high tech stuff. It has a catallyst so you mix up little batches and we'd have about 10 minutes before it would set up. It was SUPER thin and blended and flowed very nice. We didn't even sand it when we were done. I seem to recall that it cost him about $750 bucks for the paint in '91. But we're talking about a fiberglass boat that was about 25 feet from the keel to the upper deck. You'd be surprised how well roller jobs work out.

Wait... I just now remembered our trick with Imron. You roll it on with foam and then go back over it all with dry foam brushes to smooth it out. Very glossy and hard as a rock when it sets up. He had sacks of rollers and foam brushes because you had to throw them out with every batch and if we made more than a tray full we'd never have time to work it before it set. Right before it set it would start to get stringy when you pulled the brush away.

I'll have to look into this Tremclad stuff.

 

[jsneddon]

jeez. shoulda googled it first. I had never heard of Tremclad... it's just rustoleum with a different name. Nothing fancy there.

Heres some other DIY paint job articles I squirreled away in the last few months:

https://www.thebugshop.org/bsfqpnt.htm

https://www.neilslade.com/Papers/Painting.html (a strange mix of how he painted a Lotus and new-age self-help wierdness - Doc will probably relate)

https://www.off-road.com/jeep/tech/cheap_paint/ - $80 rustoleum paint job on a Jeep

 

[DrEntropy]

I'm about as NewAge SelfHelp as coal, Jim. I ~tried~ to relate, honest. Just didn't ring my chime. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Gunner]

The kids these days are different. I went to my fortieth high school reunion this year (1965). All we had then was cruiser skirts, dummy spotlights, side pipes and dual antennas. Then we stripped everything off and nosed and decked everything and painted the wheels red. When I returned from Viet Nam, everyone had a new SS396, GTO or Hemi. I didn't get it at first, but I was far too busy looking for a job to think about it. I bought a 1960 Impala station wagon for $75 and it served me well. I'm simply not into street racing and disrespecting the law. But, you gotta hand it to these kids for the workmanship that shows up in the malls on weekends. I don't get it, but I'm sure my parents thought the same about me. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif

 

[jsneddon]

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I'm about as NewAge SelfHelp as coal, Jim. I ~tried~ to relate, honest. Just didn't ring my chime. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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uh duh?

OK.. maybe not relate in the new-age sense but in the "admittedly-not-normal person with a lot of opinions who owns a Lotus sense"... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[tony barnhill]

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But, you gotta hand it to these kids for the workmanship that shows up in the malls on weekends.

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Just so you never open a door or trunk! There's one of those beautiful cars near me - sounds good, great stereo, runs like a bat out of h***...beautiful blue with all kinds of ground effects - open door or hatch & its red! POS!

 

[kennypinkerton]

I was thinking of trying this out on the Talon... But it'll still be black.