"Paint your car for 50 bucks" I am going to try it.

are you spraying this out or are you rolling it on? Would that make that much of a difference? Would you be able to put down a couple coats of clear or is that a silly question and I should go back to the sandbox?

He is suing rollers. Spraying may or may not work because it is very thin (50/50 w/mineral spirits), but it defeats the purpose of being super cheap (no sprayer, filters, compressor,etc...).
Very nice results but I wish you would experiment with a vertical surface!!!! Thx ofr the derailed write up.

I've sprayed Rustoleum before. It's a little less thinning than 50% using acetone and works great. It actually lasted longer out in the sun than that stupid $120/gal epoxy primer that everyone kept recommending. After at least 2 years in the sun and rain the epoxy primer has washed off and faded, while the Rustoleum spots are like the day I sprayed it.

Color match

It looks like (from the last picture posted at http://bryanswebpage.com/50DollarPaint/Day1.htm) the Rustoleum Gloss Sunrise Red is a close color match with the paint on your Stang. Is your car Poppy red? And can you comment on the color match as pictures are sometimes deceiving. I'm wondering if this might be an option for touching up the inside trunk lid of my 65 after recently removing the seal and old adhesive. The adhesive remover took off a bit of the paint and need to touch it up. I do not want to pay $12 bucks plus shipping to get a can of Poppy Red for this touch up job.

My .02 is that if you can spray Rustoleum, you can spray base coat/clear coat. The paint will look nicer and there are some inexpensive kits out there that do a decent job. Rustoleum has its place and I use it a lot, but this looks like the hard way to paint a car.

I've painted several of my cars in my own garage with paint kits I've bought on evil-bay. Typical cost for a cheap urethane bc/cc kit is about $200. Ok, it's not top of the line auto paint and you won't win any Ridler's, but the result is not bad, there are more colors available, and unlike Rustoleum, you can get a variety of metallics.

And you can actually get the car completely painted in one day, not six or seven. 2k primer is ready to wet sand in under 2 hours. Base coat flashes in 15-20 minutes, so you can lay down several coat in an hour. Speed clear is dry to the touch in half an hour and it'll be ready to buff in a few hours. I usually let it sit at least overnight before wet sanding, but you could go faster. Basically, it ends up being a weekend job, not an all week or more job.

You'd don't need a fancy spray gun or a huge compressor. I've been using some pretty cheap stuff and getting good results. Even solid colors look a lot deeper with a BC/CC paint.

You have to spend an awful lot of time sanding and buffing Rustoleum. I think base/clear coat is actually less work in the end. The bottom line is, no matter what paint you use, it will only look as good as the prep work beneath it. If you are going to do good prep, why not spend an extra few bucks for real paint?

Now, for those of you without a compressor, this Rustoleum thing is a pretty good technique, it seems. Just time consuming.

6T6coupe said:

I've painted several of my cars in my own garage with paint kits I've bought on evil-bay. Typical cost for a cheap urethane bc/cc kit is about $200. Ok, it's not top of the line auto paint and you won't win any Ridler's, but the result is not bad, there are more colors available, and unlike Rustoleum, you can get a variety of metallics.

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Whats the name of those kits? I did a quick search and didnt find much.

There may be others but I've used these vendors with good results:

TCP Global

Smart Shoppers

Auto Paint Pro

TCP has some nice metallics. The Smart Shopper site has a complete kit with primer, base, clear, and supplies for under $200. Good deal, but keep in mind, this is not pro quality, top of the line paint. It's more like body shop, collision work paint. But heck, if you will settle for Rustoleum, this is pretty nice stuff.

The one thing is, the paint colors may be a slightly different shade than what you see on your monitor. Ask for a chip if you need something specific.

I just prepped the whole car and put a layer of gloss black rustoleum mixed 50/550 with mineral spirits. It was a bit bubbly at first, but the more you smooth it out the better it gets. Goes on REAAAALLLLY thin

Hi found this website that might help.

http://www.rickwrench.com/50dollarpaint.html

i am taking my car down to mostly bare metal. can you describe a little more in detail on how you sprayed on your paint? what you used, primer etc please?

this sounds more the dirction i want to go..