I don't think you should let something that visually striking come up on a
person's browser SO FAST!!! It knocked me out of my chair!! Next time use on
of those slow feed downloads that go a few lines at a time for the safety of
us guys who sit on a bar stool when reading this stuff!!
Great job, Ryan!! Looks better than mine ever will (I promised my wife
that a long time ago!!)
Tim '50 Chev dlx in Ft. Worth
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BORDER,RYAN (HP-FtCollins,ex1) [SMTP:ryan_border@hp.com]
> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 11:40 PM
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> 'kborder@earthlink.net'; MCKINZIE,PATTI (Non-HP-FtCollins,ex1)
> Subject: [oletrucks] My ole-truck... in a parade?
>
> Friday, a bit after noon: I got a call from my neighbor... she's a teacher
> at the local high school, and the faculty has an entry in the CSU
> (Colorado
> State) homecoming parade. But, plans for their lead vehicle have fallen
> through... and since their school colors are purple and yellow... she
> knows
> it isn't done yet... and, by the way, is my truck running this week?...
>
> I told her I'd think about it, and let her know. Then I learn that the
> parade is Saturday morning (about 18 hours).
>
> My wife hears of the request, and decides that our 2 kids would have a
> great
> time riding in the truck... and soon there's no time to think, the
> decision
> has been made for me.
>
> I'd taken the afternoon off work anyway, and decided maybe there was
> something I could to for the truck that was approximately 1/2 covered in
> mottled grey primer, flaking off of metallic lime green. Off to the paint
> store, to see what the cheapest, fastest drying paint I could find was,
> that
> would color match reasonably well with the yellow that was on the parts of
> the truck I'd done.
>
> Back home, the truck got a quick bath, and the flaking paint got hit with
> 50grit paper- just to rip it back to something that was sticking to the
> metal. No time for finish sanding, I'm in Earl Scheib mode. Rolled it
> into the garage, and started the masking. After a bit under 2 hours, the
> primer was flowing out the gun, covering back up (most of) the spots that
> had been sanded back to bare metal. Things were going pretty well.
>
> On with the yellow: one coat, two coats, three coats, four. The acrylic
> enamel proved to be just as transparent as the good paint. And, it was
> running. No time to sand, at least not this night. Eventually, the new
> pigment started to win it's battle with the primer(s), and a fairly
> monotone
> hue started to cover the truck... thankfully hiding most of the earlier
> runs. By midnight, I had the paint done; well at least as done as it was
> going to get. By 12:30 the masking was off, and I was headed for bed.
>
> Opening the garage early this morning showed a few... we'll call them
> sags.
> Probably a bit too cold for proper paint setting, but still not too bad-
> all
> things considered. And, we were off to the parade.
>
> Everybody seemed impressed with the truck, and those who noticed the
> pretty
> lousy paint job were at least kind enough not to mention it. Good
> portions
> were covered up with signs, streamers, and assorted parade goodies anyway.
> Paint was still a bit tacky; there's a scrap of sign semi-permanently
> attached to the top of one bed-side. Joan was right, the kids had a great
> time riding in the truck bed, tossing candy out to folks lining the parade
> route.
>
> It will probably be a couple years before (if) I think it's really ready
> for
> such duties, but I must say, everyone involved had a lot of fun with my
> ole-truck today.
>
> 20ft paint job == digital camera paint-job ;-)
> So, here's a pic of the beast sporting it's new duds-
> 800X600 320K high-resolution:
> http://www.geocities.com/ryan_border/0010rfq.jpg
> 350X233 37K lower res:
> http://www.geocities.com/ryan_border/ryan552cd.jpg
>
> Ryan Border
> 55 2nd; the wannabe rod.
>
>
>
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