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#1 ciudadcentral

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 01:59 AM

Seriously: has anyone ever spray painted a car before? Is it possible for a newbie to do a good job? I've been mulling over repainting a decommissioned, but working, vehicle into a Fire-wagon (fire engine red, broad white stripe).

Earl Schieb quoted me $800. That's a little rich for my blood.

#2 chileno18

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 02:23 AM

cut yourself and paint it red with ur blood :cool:

#3 Steve the Arsonist

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 10:14 AM

Call another Schieb. Granted, two colors will cost more than one, but I got Schiebed for $285, out the door.
Get another quote.
I've not done a car, but I have painted a couple of motorcycles.
To do it yourself, and not have the car look like it, you're gonna need indoor space large enough to manuver around in (two car garage), that is CLEAN, SPOTLESS and (reasonably) DUST-FREE. The space must also be warm. You can rent a compressor and spray gun, but a little guidence and/or experience would go a long way towards making it look good. You're on the 'net. Do some footwork to find out about it.
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#4 WB05 Karl

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 05:31 PM

These are good suggestions.


There's also the and 50$ worth of krylon and a cube of old style method...
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#5 peter wilt

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 05:59 PM

Does Pinewood Derby count?

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 07:19 PM

There's also the and 50$ worth of krylon and a cube of old style method...

KRYLON?!? you crazy. Just go to PepBoys and get soem automotive paint. Or you can go to a paint place, when my dad painted his old car(no longer have it) it looked bad just cause we didn't sand the fucker and no clear coat. But this place called Terrece Paints. It was like $95 for all the paint and we borrowed a paint gun from my dads friend, but i think you can rent them from like Home Depot for like free or $20.
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#7 Steve the Arsonist

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 08:17 PM

These are good suggestions.
There's also the and 50$ worth of krylon and a cube of old style method...


Hell, you can rattle-ball a car for less than $50, even if you go with the big buck Krylon stuff.

#8 phantum

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Posted 20 November 2006 - 08:48 PM

I've painted train cars. And walls. And billboards. And rooftops. And a graffiti-busters truck. And one paddy-wagon.

There's also the and 50$ worth of krylon and a cube of old style method...

This is much better than Krylon.

Trust me.

#9 Steve the Arsonist

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Posted 21 November 2006 - 12:08 AM

One more cool thing about Barcelona.

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Posted 01 December 2006 - 01:26 AM

I did this to my 1991 Maxima last year using generic white spray paint and a hand-drawn stencil.

The paint held up through the winter and showed no signs of peeling. It was very awesome until the car broke.

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Posted 02 December 2006 - 01:42 PM

hey chuck, whatever happend to the L97mobile idea?

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Posted 03 December 2006 - 07:47 PM

Does Pinewood Derby count?

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#13 phantum

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Posted 03 December 2006 - 08:17 PM

I have word from a very good source that this is better than the paint I mentionted before.

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Posted 03 December 2006 - 08:58 PM

If you have a few extra bucks, you could always wrap it in vinyl... ;)

The only example I have on-hand, at the moment:
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(it was originally forest green, btw)

Not that you'd likely consider it for personal use, but for reference, that one was for Six Flags, so we charged them around $4800 (iirc)...
I could probably do it for around $1200 or so...maybe less, if I wanted to...

sow~ If S8 (or any other group, for that matter) ever does get an "official" vehicle, I'd be willing to do it up nice...and if you get a sponsor or two lined up, you could probably get it done free...just sayin'... ;)




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