Hi Keith ,
Welcome back. I have always painted my own cars in the garage with very good
results. I have always used acrylic lacquer and enamel paints. This time I
am using Dupont urethane Base Coat / Clear Coat. I have already sprayed the
car in self etching primer. and I am about to start with the block sanding
and high build primer phase. I have never sprayed BC/CC and I have heard bad
things about the toxicity of these types of paints. My car will be painted
British Racing Green GN.29 . Should I hang sheets of plastic in my garage
to create an improvised paint booth and spray it myself ? or Should I leave
the spraying of the final color to a professional ? I have a lot of time and
money into this project and don't want to wreck it at the final stage.
Thanks for any advice,
Mark Hanna
AN5
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Turk [SMTP:kturk@ala.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 9:32 AM
> To: David Riker; Spridget Mail List
> Subject: home painting your LBC
>
> David I totally agree.... I am now and always have been a proponent of the
> Driveway Paint job...Here is the basics of how I would do it...
>
> Find a Paint supplier.... buy the guy a Donut and cup of coffee.... go
> hang
> out for a bit in otherwords.... tell him your going to buy 100% of your
> materials from him ... Paint, Sandpaper and so on.....all you require is
> that he walk you through each of the steps.... He isn't going to teach you
> how to paint your car... but he might help more then you suspect... He is
> a
> salesman.... his job is to sell his products .... He knows them and how to
> use them... and since he is recommending each step in the process he will
> sell you a TOTAL system which is compatible... each step of the way...
> from
> Primer to Clearcoat... he may even know of a booth avalible at a local
> collage or something... ( booths are over rated )
>
> the only paint that is hard to shoot are metalic's... Straight color is
> simple... and I don't care what it looks like up front I can fix it....
> that's why I paint in my driveway... which is gravel down at the shop...
> The key to a quality paint job isn't the shine....it's the Prep and
> Cleanliness of the surface when the paint is applied and how well you sand
> and polish it afterwards... or between the base coat and the clear
> coat....
> Color sanding is a wonderful thing and a polisher is a cheap way to a show
> quality shine...
> Don't think this is a quick way to a cheap paint job....it's expensive...
> even if you own the air compressor and sanders.... ( if you don't the
> cheapies at the hardware store are fine for the couple of times in your
> life
> you going to do this ) My favorite paint is PPG Delstar but use whatever
> the nicest guy recommends... you might even go to a couple of folks just
> to
> see how many donuts you can eat in a Morning... none of it is Bad Paint
> unless it's cheap.
>
> Keith Turk ( yes I painted the Camaro in my driveway... and the rest of my
> cars ) ( when Hot Rod wrote the article the guy was amazed... he had seen
> Bazillion buck jobs that weren't as nice ) www.landracing.com/soal
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