Looks great! The only solution to repair paint that you've burned through is to resand the surface and then repaint the area. Thinner is better as it is much easier to roll on another thin coat then to sand down a thick coat.
Keep up the excellent work!
Marc in SF
63 White Comet
Marc's White Comet Page

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that looks amazing!!

lets see some daylight pics!

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Will do when turbo gets back from rebuild. I might start from scratch on the hood after I drive it for a few months. I only drove it once since I bought it 3 weeks ago.

you did that in three weeks??

yeah, im a little obsessive when i get started on something. But the short time span is also why im going to be redoing the hood.

THEYOUNGGUN53 says that because its taking him forever to finish!!! lol

I keed.. I keed...

I've lost track of the months I've been working on this. I think I started last year January

better watch out.. I'll have my 2nd car done before you finish!! lol

can't wait.. summer is coming, and the paint gods are looking favorably upon us this year

Firstly a big thankyou to all contributors, without your detailed posts I wouldn't have the confidence to undertake this.

I'll be using brightside paint, I want to paint my car white but my store only has "blue glo white". Can anybody describe the colour, or better yet post pics, as I couldn't find any photos of it.

If this colour isn't white enough then i'll be painting with Largo Blue.

Sorry i havent posted any pictures of it in the sun, i had some trouble with the mechanical side of my project (shorting the MAF wiring and forgetting to hook up an intercooler pipe ) I also started repainting the anodized red portion of the rims, and compunding the black portion to get most the scuffs out.

I did get to drive it though, and it looks rough in the sun, i didnt sand enough, so i started to go back over it using some fine steel wool it works great on getting the orange peel down fast and then finishing with 1000, 1500, 2000 meguiars ultra compound and megiuars swirl x.
The couple of test sections came out great and i really think this will be a good paint job.

I was taping off sections of the car and sanding those sections and i found a good example of what color sanding does compared to what was under the tape.
Heres the portion that was under the tape and didnt get sanded. Noticed the deformations in the reflection.

Here is a portion that i sanded with 1000, 1500, 2000, and use ultimate compound on.

very nice!!

Alright everyone. I am in!! I going to try this on my Dakota!

I would like to paint it orange (like the original poster's 69ChargerYeeHaw Charger). I want to paint the top black. Anyone have any luck with doing two-tone paint jobs? Also, stripes??

I'm new here! Any info would be helpful.

Thanking you in advance.

Welcome Johnny V.
I know a couple pages back someone was doing a pickup two tone. MercuryMarc did stripes, turned out very nice, after he was done with the base color he taped the outline and sprayed rustoleum over it, take a look at his paint page that is on his signature, its a very good read.

Thanks for the info. Props to MercuryMarc for a great website and a great car too! I was inspired by www.rickwrench.com. I even bought a 66 Corvair just like his but I have since sold it.

I am planning on starting tomorrow morning on my test panel (the tailgate). I have a lot of body work though. Long story short, I was driving down the interstate and my tailgate fell off. It was late at night so there wasn't much traffic but I looked in my rear view mirror and saw a shower of spark flying through the air. It was majestic.

It seems that many are having a lot more success here in this third part of this thread. I read the entire 43 pages of the first part of the thread and there was a lot of experimenting and not a lot of true successes.

Anyway, I will post pics of my progress.

Roll on!

I think over time we have all learned that the rolling just adds the paint.. its the surface prep and the final sanding that makes this work.

We have also been experimenting with hardeners, which real seem to help on the final results. rolledon.com is where us hard core rollers are..

Exit1965 - I read all about your woes with your test panels. I was hoping that you had gotten better results once you painted your car white.

I have already started my tailgate on my truck with one coat of paint. My original plan was to paint my truck with the exact stuff that 69ChargerYeeHaw used. Should I start over and try a hardener? Any help would be nice.

(I would post a pic but I can't get it to load right.)