Oh no not another paint brush Model A roadster!!!!!!

I thought I would start another thread about how I am painting my roadster. About 10-12 years ago I built a 31 roadster and painted it with latex paint using a brush. I really had no particular reason for doing it, I just wanted to. I took it to the LARS and was able to park with the roadsters because I used gloss house paint. The car fit all other requirements. I eventually sold the car.

Fast forward to now. I have another 31 roadster I am building. I went back and forth about how I would paint the car. I have painted many cars in the past but I hate doing it. So much work and prep. I decided to paint this one with a brush too. This time I would use oil base paint. I did a test panel and sanded and buffed it - it looked pretty good. So that's where I'm at. I will update as I go. I'm not really sure how this will turn out. We will see.

Mike

 

It was good enough for Jim Jacobs, so why not ? I have considered brush painting my rpu too, but not sure yet.

Don

 

Pics

 

Gonna keep an eye on this one. So far it looks great.

 

Looks great. Ive painted five or six cars with a brush, and so long as you "matt" your brush strokes together, your'll get no brush marks.
Thats when you stroke horizontally, then vertically. You can also heat the paint, but its not as important as how you use the brush.
Just think how many thousands you have saved.

 

It looks good. I want to do this on my roadster. Thanks for sharing.

 

Why not.

I used to paint houses with a spraygun...

 

I painted the low buck 32 I'm building with a brush. I sanded through it and did one of those fake patina jobs that everybody hates.

It looks good but when I get tired of it I might just sand it down and brush it again with a good quality brush and leave it.

Crazy as it sounds there is something really cool and satisfying about doing a brush paint job on an old car...

 

What if you use regular automotive paint with the brush? The pic where you are brushing the yellow on looks good.

 

I can't imagine using a dark color I feel like you'd see so many little bubbles or specs.

 

shes gonna be a 20 footer clark, its to bad you went that far on a build and are gonna brush paint it. Oh well it shouldnt hurt the value or under breath comments much,, right.. but hey u get to be the one that said u did it not me.

 

I used automotive paint with a roller on a VW bus. Google $50 paint job. The tuners kids have perfected this.

You can still wet sand and buff it.

 

You are wrong.

 

F that. I think it's gonna look really really good. To me that doesn't look like yellow, it looks like Rustoleum Celery green. What is it?

 

Load up the brush! Let it cure, wet sand-buff.

 

just quietly it appears that 'Mr 20 foot gonna' disapproves but I love the brush work - totally traditional - let me think $5000 for a glossy or $50 for a trad brush job? that leaves $4950 to go on the mortgage - nice job - Concours d' Elegance.

 

It has to be at least as good as the paint jobs we did in the 50's with a Sears vacuum cleaner. Now THOSE were traditional. (For those too young to remember, vacuum cleaners back then came with a bunch of different accessories, like a mothball sprayer, paint sprayer, etc.) We did a 50 Ford with one and it came out ok.

I thought that color was sort of a celery green too, looks great on there.

Don

 

I don't have any problems with a brushed paint job but I also don't see where you save much labor. with sanding(probibly multiple coats) and buffing. when you show the finished pics to us, can we get an hour total as well. keep up the good work.

 

I have ALWAYS wanted a brush painted car I am ALL FOR IT

 

I roller painted mine 5 years ago with Rustoleum. Still looks glossy and reflective. People I know that do base/clear jobs didn't believe me without the progress pics. It's the only way I could afford to finish it at the time or now.

 

The first two flatblack jobs on my '29 were done with a foam roller and oil-based rustoleum. No one ever knew unless I told them. One thing I found on mine it has too dry as slow as possible or you see every mark. I painted it one winter at work when I was in the air force(yeah I know). After it was all sanded and washed down I sat it in front of one of heat ducts in the shop to dry it. Well that one was a disaster but I didn't realize it till the next morning. Looked horrible so had to do another coat to smooth it out. The metal just got too warm and made the paint dry way too fast. At least that's my theory. I'm all for the brush/roller jobs!!!

 

The paint don't care how it got on there.
The prep matters plenty.
The sand and buff might be more work afterwards, sometimes not if you can't shoot without runs or Orange peel.

I wouldn't use house paint, but automotive enamel or an oil base will look great after your cut and buff.

 

this is what i was told by an old painter..exactly the same words.

and he showed me things he had painted with brushes and other ways..all his work looked good

 

Latex paint is just not ever going to look right. Unless of course your trying to fake a barn find or something like that and you want it to flake & peel.

Oil based paints thinned and brushed right look great on an old car. The key to pulling it off is to not make it look to perfect. Leaving a couple dents and a few brush marks is what makes it look "real".

Yes you can use a brush or a roller and make it look like it was sprayed but what's the point?

Practice on an old propane tank, tool box or whatever and let it rip.

 

Looks good mike. I really need to come buy and check it out. I start my long break tomorrow. I'll call you!

 

I painted my 29 roadster and my 37 truck with gloss black Rustoleum. I did try Penetrol as suggested on the "Brush Painted Cars.". It sure helps it lay down better. Brush painting works for me. I say go for it.

-Mitch

 

I take it then that you are the one that gave this thread a one star rating...

 

Cars used to be brush painted, by 'craftsmen'...Model A fenders were dipped.

My pal Ted DeMello bought a '33 Ford Tudor from an old man that had given it a new coat of black paint, 1956. Nitro Cellulose lacquer. Brush job.
Every other day after school, we would drive out to the Bracher ranch and wax it underneath the big willow tree...Vista wax. (would have been done in 3 days if we would have cut it!)
By the end of the school year, it looked like a custom job. Joe Wilhelm looked at it, asked who painted it! He knew it was Nitro, but thought it was sprayed...

My '27 tub is getting a brush job. (but not Latex!)
Rather have synthetic paint than rust-under-primer...

 

Trust me he knows what he is doing. if any of you have seen that yellow roadster in Austin with road map on the back trunk lid then you have seen his work. And also trust me there was huge pow wow at the gates of LA Roadster show that year on if they were going to let the car in till he produced the paint can showing it was high gloss. It was really funny to see the upper crust stuffy LA Roadster club people being beat at their own rules.

 

i did cob web panel paint jobs in the early 70's with an old vacuum cleaner when i was 16 for some of my buddies. worked good for us back in the day. it sure cut down on the cost of looking cool