I spent a few minutes going through your posts to find a pic of the '63, for reference. If you're nervous about painting, for whatever reason... maybe just polish the heck out of it. Spend a weekend working on bringing some shine back to the car.
I looked up that paint special at Whore Reilly’s and here in California, we ain’t adult enough to purchase said paint. Painting cars is out of the question, but if the snobs want lacquer on their cabinets or stair railing, they’ll allow a painter to fog out a city block with overspray. I worked construction since 1983 and seen hundreds of five gallon buckets of lacquer sprayed in new homes. Everything sold in quarts to the general public.
Sorry about that. It was simply the first result for PPG Black. I even included the links. For living in CA, I'd check for other PPG with a lower VOC content. It was to quote price, not start a west bad discussion. So long as prep is done and you can shoot the stuff, there are alternatives. I haven't priced them, though.
Well, I didn't and I've seen pics of your Henry J plenty of times - wasn't it featured in Gasser Wars magazine? I did think about doing that with my Chevy II when/if the time comes, now re-thinking it again thanks to what you've shown us. It's definitely a viable option and I'd tell the OP (if he's still with us!) to consider it.
TCP Global has never stopped me buying anything, in California. I have about 14-gallons of their various products in the shop right now.
@DDDenny I completely agree except that we are having a fine time discussing the various merits of a cheap paint job and he's missing out! I'll just turn off notifications at this point. Seems we have covered the topic pretty fully.
@DDDenny and I are still waiting to hear about the 4 speed install and why the brakes were pulling to one side
My friend has a body shop and spent 80k on the water base spray booth , which he says is a joke cuz the primers and sealers are urethane ,then waste base color bake it then clear with urethane!? WTAF? He says it makes no sense.hes painting another friend of ours '56 Belair we were all in auto body in high school back in '79 when Imron first came out , it's the gun metal blue from the newer GMC pickups ,paint, clear thinners and hardeners came to just under $3500.00 .Holy crap nuthin' wrong with red primer and some orange and white pinstripes,!
I would get a set of wheels and tires instead of paint stuff. Steelies, poverty caps with black bias plies. Torque thrusts or Keystones...Wide Ovals Chrome Gennies with black walls or white letters
Cheap and paint don't go together. Buy good products, do good prep and you will get good results. You can always fix runs.
Hello, No one wants a car with a terrible paint job that looks like an orange peel or just looks awful. It is the pride in your build or purchase, as you get along in your modification journeys. But, prepping is the key to good finishes. You know the skill you have from old smaller projects or specific parts. Not everyone started with painting the whole car, before it still will be part of a plan to try and not spend so much money. When we were doing our 40 Willys Coupe build, we prepped the frame and painted it black. No one sees the frame, so many cans did the trick. But, when we got to the fenders, hood and doors, as well as the body, we had a sprayer. But, again, prepping and sanding was the key. It was smooth and ready when we got the spraying hose/head adjusted for the final spray. No booth, but a large clear plastic heavy duty tarp spread out from our closed garage door across the concrete and enough room to walk around to spray the prepped metal. We were using a simple gallon of commercial red primer paint. My brother’s goal was to get the motor running… that seems like a song title… Then, when we were ready, have a professional painter complete the final color. That was a choice both of us were still debating. Silver versus yellow. So most of the photos are black/white or a shade of color when possible. Old photographs had the color, but the details could come later for us. Jnaki The guy that built my first flathead 40 Ford Sedan Delivery had power in mind. He had put in a 348 motor and it sounded so nice when he was idling across the parking lot where we were all gathered for the Friday night late gatherings. Under the lights, it looked orange and the blackwall tires with small center hubcaps gave it the “racy” look. Instantly, that sedan delivery took over my mind for the future. Orange hot rod, powerful motor, cool looks and sounded outstanding. What more could a teenager want? thanks @themoose Luckily, I had no inclination to repaint the dark black color on my 58 Impala. But, when the expert body shop in Los Angeles did some rounded rear fender top curved corner with lead, when he finished with the custom body work, he used the top quality black paint for an unblemished finish and it looked just like the pristine black paint on the overall Impala. The neighbor across the street got into historic military vehicles. His latest purchase was a 6 wheeled green truck. It was foggy and I was slightly late to drive to Bixby Knolls for a meeting. So, I backed out in the thick fog normally. Here is my dad backing out and facing the way we usually head down our neighborhood street. The red arrow shows where the huge army green truck was parked in the thick fog. Imagine my dad’s 57 Buick backing out of the same driveway, but in fog so thick you could not see the 50s car across the street. So, I was unaware our neighbor had just bought a behemoth truck and parked it by the curb on his side of the street. Normally, no car or truck is ever parked there. So, backing up from our neighborhood driveway was always the same pattern for all cars. As I was backing up in the fog, I got to the street in the our driveway. Looking both ways for headlights, there were none. So, I continued turning and backing up normally, like I had done for 1000’s of times. Then I heard a clunk and stopped instantly. I had run into something and from the rear view mirror, could not see what. So, I got out and it was this giant green military truck parked in the fog. It was never there at anytime in our history. The neighbor must have bought it during the day and now, it was parked. (in our neighborhood, it was illegal to park any commercial vehicle and although this large truck was not a commercial vehicle like a Helms Bakery Truck, it had a commercial plate and therefore, illegal. ) The front corner bumper of the large truck was even with the rear right fender curve of the 1958 Impala. The sharp corner just hit the curving corner and made a 6 inch long dent about an inch or two. I was mad, but the truck should not have been there. My reasoning was that the neighbor was not responsible for fixing my dented fender. But, the next day, the truck was gone, since the police came to tell him to park in in a commercial zone or parking lot and not in a residential neighborhood. Good riddance… Note: Since the repair body man in Los Angeles was an old school guy, he used lead and techniques as a part of the fix. The finished paint was immaculate and no one knew the Impala was ever damaged. Except the young kid I sold it to in 1965 when I went away to college. YRMV
There was a thread, where guys were using Rust-Oleum, either brush or roller, then wet sanding and buffing it. What I saw looked good, for a old factory paint job look. I'll have to search it!
Old friends Frank Russo (RIP) and John Cardenelli built this car in the late 90's. John painted it in his backyard on the grass. I welded the chrome strip holes, lower rocker panels and tail fin extensions for them. They sold the car to John D'Agostino who then showed it.
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