Saw the article in HOT ROD this month and they painted a car for $130. I want to paint my el camino this color. They used rustoleum professional flat black paint. I completly forgot to block my car when I painted it so im thinking it would look alot better with this flat black than my splotchey, orange pealy blue. The things concerning me right now are that I have no way of protecting it form the elements. Can I wax it? Clear coat? IDK. Saw a recent thread with flat black paint job pics and I really like how it looked. Im concerned I was sold to easy by the article because they did my favoite car. (67 camaro) If they are willing to paint that than I think ill be ok. If it fails I will have a nice coat of primer for next year. I could stare at the last picture in th earticle of the car for longer than I could stare at a play boy magazine. Oh, Im heading in town and buying everything if no one can talk me out of it by 12. :lol:
affordably flat?
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as for the clearcoat question you'd need to paint it with a basecoat and the clear is what gives you the finish...I'm doing my matte so I have to add a matte additive to the clear...it's a little more than $130 tho...I paid $180 just for the matte additive and you'll want to get a good quality clear because you can't wax the car with a matte or flat finish
Rustoleum will work fine if your cars lives indoors..... Without being able to protect the finish, it's a sitting duck, and you'll have to completely strip the car of it's damaged paint should you ever decide to do a proper paint job. Saves you money now, but will cost you time and money later. Pontiacgp's additive he mentioned, may not be as expensive here state side, you can use an acrylic enamel black (say omni brand) with a hardener, then use the clear over top with the flattening agent. You could then use a spray on/wash off type wax (or other film free protectant) on it. It might cost upwards of $300, but it will last a hell of a lot longer than plain old rustoleum.
Olds your right about the prices and I think you can even get a matte clear coat without need the additive in the US. We can't even get acrylic paint and I couldn't even get epoxy primer with the stupid tree hugger rules we have up here
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So you guys have to use water based only? Never any experience with the stuff, but I've heard it's kind of finicky to work with(even how you handle it), and a royal pain to do two tone paint jobs with.
it's not down to just water based yet but the VOC regulations we have really limit the paint we can get. There are certain paint's that can't achieve the limits so they are not available. It cost me over $1,000.00 for the primer, paint, clearcoat and matte additive. Before the regulations came in I could have done it alot cheaper. Here's a quote from an article..
"These new regulations will put Canada among the most stringent jurisdictions in the world with respect to VOC emission controls."
"These new regulations will put Canada among the most stringent jurisdictions in the world with respect to VOC emission controls."
Yikes, the only thing I can't really buy here is laquer (I wanted to paint my malibu with it), but the acrylic is nice to work with. $1000 isn't too far off what I paid a couple years ago to redo the Eagle, I may have spent about $800 between ecth primer, primer surfacer, sealer, paint and clear (I went acrylic enamel).
I did it the cheapest I could except for the clear since with the matte no wax to protect it and I got dealer prices which saved me about $350....
Hell yeah, I read the same article and really liked the outcome, I though about this myself, even stop by the paint section while I was in Lowe's to see if they carried that paint and they did. I say go for it, you already dont like the orange pealy blue paint thats on it, besides name a paint that's not susceptible to the elements?
Read the can and it will tell you just what you need to know
"OVERVIEW:
Rust-Oleum Professional High Performance Protective Enamel is ideal for metal surfaces in heavy-duty and commercial environments. Apply for superior coverage and hiding.Retains color against the elements.
PRODUCT FEATURES:
Indoor/Outdoor
Gloss, or flat black and white
Durable, corrosion-resistant" RUSTOLEUM.COM
anyways, the outcome sure beats all of the backyard rattle-can jobs I have ever seen and protects better than just primer
Read the can and it will tell you just what you need to know
"OVERVIEW:
Rust-Oleum Professional High Performance Protective Enamel is ideal for metal surfaces in heavy-duty and commercial environments. Apply for superior coverage and hiding.Retains color against the elements.
PRODUCT FEATURES:
Indoor/Outdoor
Gloss, or flat black and white
Durable, corrosion-resistant" RUSTOLEUM.COM
anyways, the outcome sure beats all of the backyard rattle-can jobs I have ever seen and protects better than just primer
i know its an older thread, but just for sh*ts and giggles, heres the aforementioned camaro 
and heres a link to the article http://www.hotrod.com/techarticles/body ... _painting/
and heres a link to the article http://www.hotrod.com/techarticles/body ... _painting/
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