Thread: Garage Painting for Dummies

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Along a similar line, when I buy a new car in New York State, which is almost as far from CA as you can be in the US, it will have CA emissions controls, which of course somewhere in the price I pay extra for that 'privilege'.

So far NY doesn't require the water based paint, but they are on the way

The September 2010 Street Rodder Mag did several articles on painting prep and painting.

One of the fellows in our car club just painted his glass 34 Ford in his garage. I was quite impressed with the way it came out. He even two toned it. This was his first try also. He had been doing body work on it for a while to get the fit right. He spent 3 months or more on finish work and painting it. He is still finishing up a few boo-boos but it sure looks nice. I asked him what he spent and he said between $2000 and $2500. The quotes he got from the local painters were all North of $10k for the job. He said he could screw up and fix a lot for $8000. His philosophy was to take his time, make sure he understood what he was doing, then if he did make a mistake be sure he fixed it right. He is also in CA so he had to deal with the water based paint. Good luck with your project, I will also be following.

Pat

FYI
The PPG DPLF epoxy primer, K36 urethane primer and Deltron Basecoat/Topcoat used in the September 2010 Street Rodder Mag article are no longer available in Canada. I am not sure about the Concept clearcoat.
Omni Plus is still available, otherwise we have to use Envirobase/Aquabase waterborne.