Budget pain job Is this for real?

[MTownsend]

Budget paint job Is this for real?

I found this on Moparts.com Is this posible?

http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=2331682&an=0&page=0#Post2331682

This is the text i copied from there





here's how i painted my car for about $50, it's actually very easy and the results are amazing. First off, get a can of tremclad real orange (or what ever color u want) in the can, not spray, yes tremclad, it is a acrylic/enamel paint which is very durable. next prep your car as if was any other paint job, fix all the rust, ect... . no need to prime the car since the tremclad allready contains elements which allow it to be painted over bare metal. next, after prepping the car get a small 4" professional FOAM rollers, it's tiny and has one end rounded off, and the other cut straight, and is a very high density foam. u also need a jug of mineral spirits to thin the paint. The thing i really like about this is that there's no mess, no tapeing the whole car, just key areas, and u can do it in your garage, since your not spraying there is virtually no dust in the air, just clean your garage first, also it does'nt really smell at all, dries overnight and it super tough paint. also it you decide to paint the car professionally later, just prep and paint, there's no need to strip the tremclad. i have done this to a few cars, and i can say it works amazing, u just have to be paitient. next u thin the paint with mineral spirits so it just about as thin as water, a little thicker. get out the roller and paint away, don't get the paint shaked when u buy it, enamel is stirred, otherwise you'll have bubbles in the paint for a week!!! after u do 2 coats, wet sand the whole car, then repeat, 2 coats, wetsand, 2 coats wetsand. i painted the charger using a can since your not spraying the car u use all the paint and not spray 50% in the air, use progressivly finer sand paper each time. it's not really that much work, cause u can stop and start any time, u can do just a door, or the hood, ect. do one panel at a time, and don't stop once you start. once your done the final coat, wetsand with about 1000 grit to a totally smooth finish, and then using a high speed polisher i use a buffing bonnet and turtle wax polishing compound. do the whole car with this, and i'm telling u, depending on the amount of time and paitence you have, the results are amazing. laugh if you want, but for $50 ($30 for paint, about $20 for rollers, sand paper, ect... ) it really looks good. also you can do these steps overnight, paint one evening and by morning u can wet sand. i have personally done alot of painting, mostly single stage acrylic enamel, and i've sprayed several cars in my garage with really good professional results, just it stinks, it's a real pain to do, easy to make a mistake, messy, and expensive. The tremclad is awesome paint, the "real orange" is an amazing hemi orange, and almost looks like it has some perl in the sun, awesome color right out of the can. I used this technique on my 1974 beetle also, here are the results:

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the car before:

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another after pic:

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here is a car i sprayed (71 beetle, midnight blue metalic):

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here is the car before (71 beetle):

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here's a few pics of the charger done:

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[tugboatphil]

I had never heard of this paint before. An online search leads me to believe it is designed for painting metal roofs. I also read users who claimed that it couldn't be waxed to a brilliant shine, and it always looked like a satin finish. It was referred to as a "soft" enamel paint.



However, that orange Charger sure looks good!

 

[TKingsbury]

Thats been circulating for a while. Tremclad is a Canadian Rustoleum line. I don't see why it wouldn't work, I've seen guys use Rustoleum with an automotive paint gun with good results. I think I'd do some experimenting before I tried to paint something I really cared about though. I was thinking about painting my Samurai, since it just gets abused anyway.

Travis. .

 

[tugboatphil]

I was wondering about using the roller. I got a kit for restoring an old claw foot tub. I sanded the heck out of it, as iron pipes had laid in it for a while. Got it prepped real good and mixed up the epoxy paint. I used a roller exactly like he describes painting the car with. It turned out real smooth and shiny.....



However, I didn't take into account all those gnats in the summer. Only a couple stuck "under" the paint. There was no removing them without breaking the seal of the epoxy. We redid it for my wife's son, as an anniversary present. I told them the bugs were a "no-slip" surface. :-laf

 

[Moab4x4]

Non-slip surface!!!!! ROFL Done that once or twice...



Anyway, I hate sanding enough not to try this method, but it could work. A member of my old Studebaker club worked at NAPA and when they clearanced a particular shade of orange Krylon he bought out every store in the Phoenix area. He painted his 60 Studebaker Pickup with Krylon spray cans! It was pretty ugly when he was done with the overspray making the whole job the opposite of glossy. He just kept spraying until all the cans were empty and when dry he polished the heck out of it and it looked great! I couldn't believe how good it looked. I think the key is that if you get enough paint on it and are willing to sand/polish it smooth it will work.