Posted on 07/13/2022 7:30:26 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
On the wallet at times. I am not a paint and body guy plus I don’t have the capability where I am to anything besides use a spray can on small stuff.
Throw in welding and replacement sheet metal on a couple of occasions.
—”used a bursh to paint the whole car a deep purple. “
Used to be more than a few quick buck painters that used house paint on a hot summer day in direct sun.
Not too bad and you could spiff it up by rubbing it with de-scented kerosene. might last long enough to sell it?
That’s funny right there!
Grandfather drove it, not sell it.
ROTFLMAO!
Audi A8s are all aluminum. People have stripped the paint, buffed to high gloss, then clear coated them. Here’s an article about one:
https://www.carsguide.com.au/car-news/audi-a8-spit-and-polish-14707
Terrible pic, I’ve seen better, but it’s what I could find.
Enjoyed your link. Hadn’t heard of this before.
Every Automotive Paint Guy I ever met were colorblind. Perfect for matching paint by shade not the color.
—” the green tint in the paint is the same ink used to make Money!”
A wayward friend was a graphic artist for a megacorp.
When bored they would run $5 bills through the copy machine then hand color some key parts and cash them in the change machine to verify their work.
"LOL that way you could tell, what kind of person steps put of,their vehicles, and whether you wish to engage them or not 😆"
—”My ‘58 VW bus was kept rust free by a top to bottom coat of roofing patch thinned with gasoline. “
A friend’s father straight from the old country used to paint the underside of his VW with the used drain oil!!!
He claimed it was in the older german owners’ manuals!!!
That reflected light color theory makes my brain hurt!
Easier to just call it a photoshop job!
All 2K automotive paints are (or can be) toxic if you don’t use PPE. They are polyurethane, and some people have a bad reaction to the isocyanates they contain.
lol- coulda saved a lot of bad relationships
—”I always thought a car done entirely in chrome would be cool”
Local gearhead legend has it that Ford built a few stainless cars? And supposedly illegal on the road in many states.
I got the one from the same source as the cheap Corvette because they could not remove the odor from the decomposing owner???
A local landscaping truck has the back end covered in fake grass turf.
What is that funny green thing ahead of me???
Ugly ass paint.. guessing that’s the LGBTQ colors in the sun.
He's driving horny n' she's passengering cold as ice.
—”Every Automotive Paint Guy I ever met were colorblind. “
We had some very expensive equipment that was scratched!
OH MY!
I asked my friend the body shop guy, he recommended a local paint supplier... This very old guy takes my sample and asks a bunch of questions about the type of light bulbs...
We make a deal, he will mix a very small amount by eye if I do not accept it I have to pay for a quart mixed by the computer. I only need a few drops!
He recommended a brush and everything needed and if the shop was empty, hot to do the work.
For years I went to him for all my paint needs and gladly recommended him.
One day I returned, and they said he had been the owner for many years and passed away, that he was one of a kind, not many can do what he did.
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