Pagoda SL Group
Off Topic => Way Off Topic => Topic started by: Kenneth Gear on July 08, 2007, 17:47:01
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I thought I'd share this site I ran across of a guy who painted his Corvair in his drivewy for $50.00 using rustoleum and a roller.
Looks much better than I would have expected.
http://www.rickwrench.com/50dollarpaint.html
Ken G
1971 280 SL Silver/red
1969 BMW 2800 (sedan)
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Amazing looking results. Surprisingly it seems to have held up well at eight months.
Who will try wallpapering their headliner?
See you all at Home Depot.
1967 230SL
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Most amazing indeed, this is the kind of thing it would be really cool to see up close and real, pictures and a computer monitor just don't capture the detail. Still looks dang good!!
Jonny B
1967 250SL Auto
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Brush painting and wet sanding with steel wool was the standard repair procedure for repainting cars before WWII.
This is a page from the 1926 Sears and Roebuck Catalogue
(http://www.sl113.org/forums/uploaded/al_lieffring/200778235717_new-1.jpg)
Other than whale oil being the base of the enamel from that era, the Rust-Oleum paint would be basicly the same thing as what would have been sold back then.
I had a friend in high school that took 1/2 gallon of Rust-Oleum and spray painted his Bug-eye Sprite with it using Coleman lantern fuel for thinner. It was a good thing the color he chose was orange because the resulting finish had a matching orange peel texture.
Al Lieffring
66 230Sl
Jones'n for a new gas tank
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Thank heavens he didn't need metal work. That would've set him back another twenty bucks. :)
Douglas Kim
New York
USA
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Certainly looks better than the "Professional" paint job the previous owner of my SL had done.
1970 280SL Light Ivory
1972 911 Targa