affordably flat?

[LSCustoms]

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:

nope dont do it! this is my opinion. first of all, if you are willing to work hard and do the body work, if you dont know how, then you can learn, or pm me, i will help you through the steps and send you links to tutorials, etc that will make it more comfortable for you to do it. I have a youtube friend that recently did a kandy paint job in his garage "the right way" and there are several others that have done this...

If it were me, i would strip the car done with air craft stripper and body work it, and just paint it right, yourself. a good spray gun can be had for $50, you may have most of what is needed to finish the job and doing it yourself enables you to be able to spend more money on the paint product. there is a company called gems i think, that has decent quality paint for very affordable price.

unless i saw the paint job (from the article in person), then I wouldnt trust it, period. these guys get paid to do certain things and put it in the magazine. im pretty sure they wouldnt have done it if rustoleum didnt provide the paint, if not more. you can show how to paint a car with regular paint for a little more, so why not do that?

 

[lesbaldridge]

i agree, i personally wouldnt go the rustoleum method either. however , i do ike the john deer blitz black. i think its worth checking out. thats the route i think im going. check out my post in this thread on it , it pretty cool.
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