I think you guys can appreciate this: $50 paint job!

Huh, from what I can see (so-so/internet-quality pics, white car, etc. etc.), it *did* turn out a lot better than I woulda expected!
 
:rofl nice find Tom! Not too shabby.



I'd be curious about the durability.



I like the rubbing compound tin!



I refinished the iron railings on my front porch after sanding with Rustoleum primer and 3 coats of Rustoleum black paint. Its holding up beautifully after 2 years.
 
Never would have believed you could get that result from using a roller on a car!! That is just crazy!!
 
I used to get good results with a foam roller and epoxy paint on old soda machines I bought for a little route I had years ago.



BTW nice old Corvair, too. My Dad had a few of them. The last couple were "resting" on my uncle's farm, but some kid in the area took rocks and knocked out every last piece of glass on the cars and it was a couple months before it was noticed. With the glass gone and the interiors now trashed, they're worthless.
 
I've heard about cars being painted by hand in the past. The results I viewed were horrid and they did indeed appear to have been painted by a paint brush...nothing to brag about.



I will say this guy has what appears to be a very decent result considering the $$$ invested.
 
A friend of mine has an old beater Honda that he drives in the winter. So far, it's rust free, but the paint is absolutely shot. He's considering giving the roller a try . . . it's not like he can make the car look any worse. :)



If he decides to tackle the project, I'll be there with camera, beer, and rotary at the ready.



Tort
 
TortoiseAWD said:
. it's not like he can make the car look any worse. :)
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LOL. Yeah, there's not much downside @ $50.



Perhaps someone with paint experience could recommend a more suitable can of paint.
 
In high school, we painted a friend's Dodge Diplomat with house paint & brushes (zebra striped no less). Looked like crap (imagine that!). But, everyone knew when we were coming down the road. Wish I had photos of it.
 
kompressornsc said:
In high school, we painted a friend's Dodge Diplomat with house paint & brushes (zebra striped no less). Looked like crap (imagine that!). But, everyone knew when we were coming down the road. Wish I had photos of it.
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:rofl My buddies and I did the exact same thing on a 1980's Thunderbird and mounted a big shark's jaw on the front grill. Not to mention a few hilarious bumper stickers that I won't mention here.
 
Holy crap! I'm amazed. Has anyone followed the link to the Mopar forum? There were a ton of people trying this method. Most don't have great pictures so it's hard to really see how it looks, but it's very interesting.
 
Wow...I don't think you can beat that for the money! Hopefully he updates his site after 6 months to a year has passed. I'm curious to see what the durability is like.
 
Spilchy said:
:rofl nice find Tom! Not too shabby.



I'd be curious about the durability.



I like the rubbing compound tin!
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I too would be curious about how long it would last ..The job came out real nice for a roller....this process may put Maaco and Earl Shrieb out of business with the ones that want a cheap paint job...lol...



AL
 
If you follow the link at the top for "$50 Paint Job" it goes to a Mopar site thread of another guy that has done the same thing. Supposedly he has done several of these paint jobs, including a Beetle that I think he said he did 6 years ago. There is also another guy, AussieDriver who did his Miata with something called Brightside that turned out even better after using Poorboys to polish out the black.



Here is the second part of the thread, lots of pages with some results that look pretty nice.

moparts: Paint job on a budget!? CONTINUED..page 44............
 
tom p. said:
LOL. Yeah, there's not much downside @ $50.
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The downside is not the immediate present, it's the future. Yeah, it looks great (from the pictures) but he put a whole lot of work into something that is going to fade real quick, ask him for new pictures in about 2 - 5 years. The paint has no clear on it. Unless he keeps the car in the garage he completely wasted his time putting all that work into it. It's a shame with as much dedication to getting the job done right, he used the wrong thing. I understand he was doing it as a temporary fix, but the look of the car does not look temperoray at all. It looks like he started then kept going on it to get it to the look he wanted.



I know someone that did the same thing, spent 3 months on restoring a car and put single stage paint on it because it was a qucik/cheap/easy. Well now the car looks like pooo, because the paint was not properly preped and the materials were wrong. He painted flames on it and missed several steps along the way and now the flames are chipping off the paint.



The $50 paint is one thing to get by on a cheapy, but to restore a car the way he did, I think he should have had it done right and would appreciate the patience on knowing that the results he has is going to stay longer for 2 - 5 years.



In conclusion he wasted his time, and $50+, I'm not sure who here has wetsanded an entire vehicle and/or buffed one after that, but it takes forever, and you have to have patinece with it. So the amount of time he put into this, was well wasted.
 
I'll disagree with that. From his webpage "Corvair Corsa, mostly done, parked back on the street where it belongs." Doesn't sound like he was doing a restoration on it, just experiment to see if it would look better than it did. He did it outside so he definately wasn't trying to get the best results possible. $50 and a week of his time, which is his to determine was worth it, and a paint job that last him 2-5 years? A great deal if you ask me. He could have laid down $500 for a car that sat on the street and been in the same shape in 2-5 years.
 
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