thanks!!!!

I towed this car home for $400. The motor was laying on the rear seat, it got hit and needed a new front bumper and fender. I also had to strip about 60 coats of paint off the rear bumper.

I got the car running and driving and then dug into the paint.

I used rusto professional thinned w/ mineral spirits until "it's a little thicker then water" It took a few more coats then what I would have wanted but I can't complain, I PAINTED IT WITH A ROLLER

that looks fantastic!!

Done should have taken before and after pictures, but didn't.
Monday I'm going to take the Porter-Cable to it with some compound and make the rest look like the touched up area's.

I'm the guy who painted the vette.... I've had fun this last year letting people look at the thing really close then almost always thinking I'm joking. Pretty fun, actually.

So here I am again. I have just hauled home a 1961 Valiant. I'll be starting the body work soon, and will have it in paint shortly.

- Darrin

Finally started fixing my 65 mustang coupe. Cheapest paint job I could find was $3000 so I decided what do I have to lose. With the $3000 I am saving I can add some more hp to my anemic 6 cyl motor.

Anyways here is what I started with:


I am reversing the color scheme using Brightside Blu-Glo white for the Leman stripes and Flag Blue for the rest of the body.

I did about 4 coats of blue and it looked really orange peely so I sanded it way back. What I found out is I could not push down hard enough with the roller on the cheap throw away plastic paint trays without them collapsing on me. This caused me to have way to much paint on the roller. I went to Lowes and spent 40 cents more and bought a thick plastic tray instead of the cheap ones. What a difference. I was able to press much harder on the roller in the tray removing most of the paint. This allowed me to get a nice thin and smoother coat.

Here is where I am at now:



Here is a link to some more pictures for those who are interested.
Rolling a 65 pony

I am also playing with adding pearl to the paint.
I kept hearing that it won't work but I am pig headed and needed to try it myself. I made two batches of paint one with Silver Satin Pearl and the other with Purple Pearl to the flag blue and applied each to half a fender skin I had kicking around.
So far so good. There does not seem to be any blotchy areas and the pearl seems well disbursed.

Again thanks to all the blazed the trail. I can't wait to go to some car show and tell people I roller painted the car.

Here are some pic's of my pearl test piece..
This is one coat straight flag blue coat with one coat of the pearl on top. I did not prep the fender and this definitely shows. The pictures do not correctly reflect how the piece looks. It actually looks better than the pictures. I will play around with the camera and see if I can improve it.

Satin Silver:


Purple:



Here you can see the difference between the purple pearl (left) and the silver satin (right)


I am going to prep the test piece better and try again.

love the mustang, my mom had a cherry 66, I loved that car!

alright, if you can believe it I actually got around to doing my first pannel today. This is where I shaved the gas door.

first coat of Rusto almond mixed with white, I'm still going with brightside but this was just a test.

I put it on WAY to thick, I didn't get a horrible amount of orange peal but still.





I'm just testing for now, nothing serious.

excitingness!

tomorrow... i begin painting my '69 f100 two tone Brightside red/white!!!
I am going to lay the first coat on the inside of the cab, doors, front of bed, rear of cab, edges of fenders, jambs and firewall. then i am going to put all body panels back on and then it will be a truck again after a few years! then i am going to spend time sanding the body then paint.

i will be updating my whole paint job here with pictures. hopefully, the whole truck will be painted all coats within 1.5 months.

wow, finally some paint on the truck!
here is the first coat of my brightside fire red and off white.

I am painting everything that i wont be able to get to when the body is put together.

the nice thing is that everything i am painting this week is stuff that you won't see easily so its good practice for the exterior body.

a few first coat shots.
the part that appears i "missed" on the firewall is going to be black. once i hang the inner fender sim going to paint that part which will be on the wheel well side, black.


i am going to tape it in a later coat for a clean line.

it sure will look patriotic with the old blue paint, the red and the white


FYI there used to be a big gaping speaker whole in one of the doors


i can't wait until saturday when its all fully coated and i start putting it back together so i can paint the whole body!

got a second coat on today







also started on the shaved half moon

thanks!
you're bug is looking good too. we have both been on this thread for a while and now we are finally getting paint on ourselves!

I can't wait to get that second coat on tomorrow!
I think i am applying the coats at a good thickness, if you look at the kickpanel you can see where i welded/ground holes shut.
Painting a project is so exciting!

thank you

I'm still pretty behind on body work. Plus I'm waiting on having enough money to get the rag top kit that'll finish the roof off. So I've still got a ways to go, but you look like your on the home stretch!!

coat number two went on this morning! only took me 1.5 hours this time!

tomorrow i wake up early and wetsand it all, then wait to the afternoon when its dry and lay on coat 3, then coat 4 on thursday. then put it back together on monday