Lacquer thinner and Scotch Brite pads.....

I like it. However I think the clearcoating might not work out. For one I dont think it will stick. If you paint right over bare metal with no metal etch it usually falls off fairly soon. You can buy clear that is designed to go over raw metal, like for polished aluminum and stuff. Also the rust will come back under the clear pretty fast, sooner then a year I would think, and then it would be a bitch to redo it. But Id figure it out I really like the bare metal look... Ive always wondered how cars that are bare metal stay un-rusty. Maybe they use some oil or something?? i know Ospho will kill the rust for a while but it might change the color a little bit...

 

...Burb-an-Scotch...

 

what did you use to get it all down to bare metal?

 

nice !!!!i like it

 

Is that Grumpy's old burb?

 

Yea, it's Grumpy's old sub and I use what the title to this thread is to keep it bare.

And the reason I'm not painting it yet is because like the old saying goes,"Poor folks have poor ways".

I can't afford body work and a full paint job right now, so I'm doing the best I can. I really don't wanna do this, but I'd rather this than WD-40, I do plan on painting it.

 

I've seen this vehicle at shows, and everyone crowds around it, from kids to old-time hotrodders. People walk right past the $100,000 goldchainer street rods and climb all over 1low's Suburban. It's different, it's fun, I can open a beer bottle with the bottle opener on the back...

I saw the same thing at the Hot Rod Power Tour...people walking past cars that cost several hundred thousand to build, to look at something that was fun and different.

 

Bone white top. Bass boat flake the hell out of the lower. Everytime I see that thing I think of Harry and the Hendersons. So cool!

 

I know some are using Gibbs pentrating oil to keep the rust away and from what I have read it can be used like a primer and painted over. I have read about several people with the bare metal look on their rides using it.

 

Here's a suggestion; reduce Ospho 50/50 with H2O, makes it a metal prep, rub metal with wet rag, rub dry with dry rag, wait 20 minutes, paint. Another suggestion; how about urethane varnish? comes in gloss, semi-gloss, and flat. It is also more economical(read that "cheap", like me).

 

Don't bust 1Low's balls about bare metal. My wife and I did that when we built it. Because that's what we wanted. Plain and simple as that.

As for what was used to strip it...My wife did 99% of the stripping herself. She used a jelly stripper in a gallon can from Home Depot. I think called cleen-strip or something to that effect.
It was in a white and orange can, and about $22.a gal., She went through 4 gallons over a 4-5 week period stripping it.

Here she is in action.....she's a keeper

 

I've tried to convince my wife to do some amateur stripping but she didn't go for it.
I even put a brass pole in the garage...

 

Check out this stuff, we use it to coat the pontoons on our boat after cleaning them up. I scotch brite them and then rub this stuff into the surface. You can't tell it's there and it keeps the aluminum from turning black and crappy for a whole season. I never thought about using it on steel, but, I don't see why it wouldn't work. It doesn't have to be mixed with paint or varnish like the site says.

http://www.flood.com/Flood/Products/Exterior/Marine/Penetrol+Marine.htm