Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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PPG makes a product in quarts called "Flexed N Flat". You have to use a lot of it but you add it into the clear (of course). Works but if you ever need to touch up a spot it's HARD to match the flatness. And like I said, you have to use a LOT of it to get flat, or there is eggshell and then semi gloss. Gotta be careful using it or else it will look like little cracks in it or if you ever look at a desert ground or such where it hasn't rained in a long time it has little squares all over with cracks, it looks like that. If you decide to go with gloss black then check out SPI basecoat black or their single stage.
www.southernpolyurethanes.com
Barry is the owner there and VERY helpful when it comes to needing it and customer service is top notch. Maybe you already know of it, I know that some members here know of it and are on their forums. Hell, ask the question over there, they will know of a lot of different brands to use that are good and actually work well.

Don, as nice as that car is, it deserves a high gloss finish. Flat and satin black finishes are done to death in the rat-rod crowd and your roadster is anything but a rat. Whatever color you put on it, it should SHINE!

Thanks, but a body has to be really right to be gloss black, and I am far from a bodyman. I HATE bodywork. Like I mentioned earlier, we have all seen cars that should never have been painted black, so a satin would probably be my best choice for now. With no booth it is tough to get a good job.

I am going to make the body quickly removable, using wiring plugins, etc, so if I decide later on to have someone paint it gloss it wouldn't be too much trouble to pull it off. For now, I just want to get it on the road. Tampa and Daytona are rapidly approaching.

A $ 500 fiberglass body is tough to get straight enough for black unless you are good at body work, which I am not.

Don

I HATE bodywork.

Can I have an AMEN?

Have you grown finger prints back yet Jack??? I'm about ready to go over and sand some more of my fingertips off tonight.


Don

You can do it Don, I think you are being humble but your body isn't that bad from the pics I have seen.

And what pics have you seen of his body???is there something we should know?? just kidding, you left that one WIDE open.

Let me refraise that.......His car body!! HeHeHe!!!

Originally Posted by DennyW

I heard once, safe crackers are body men.

Are you sure you got that right? Maybe what you heard is body men are "crackers"!

Originally Posted by brickman

Let me refraise that.......His car body!! HeHeHe!!!

Whew! Glad you cleared that up. We've already seen Don in a Tutu and ballet slippers. Next might have been a Speedo.., or a thong.., or WORSE!

A Tutu or Speedo or Thong now I can't go to sleep with that image in my mind.
Brad

Originally Posted by J. Robinson

Next might have been a Speedo.., or a thong.., or WORSE!:

Don't give Bob any ideas!!!!

Originally Posted by J. Robinson

Whew! Glad you cleared that up. We've already seen Don in a Tutu and ballet slippers. Next might have been a Speedo.., or a thong.., or WORSE!

Did you watch the video of the engine start? On another board they've given him the name "Chicken legs". And I had nothing to do with that....................honest!

Originally Posted by Hotrod46

Don't give Bob any ideas!!!!

Too late!!!

Oh, the abuse I take in the name of Hot Rodding !! If I wanted this kind of treatment I would have stayed married.


Anyway Brick, thank you, and the next few days will tell me what the sheen will be. Dan sort of agrees that it is straight enough for gloss, and if I put enough clear on we can buff the heck out of it.

Now I have to go do my leg exercises.


Don

Don,
You are really moving along! I think it looks BITCHEN!
Ken