50 Dollar Paint Job

Published on 2007-07-05 by Mark VandeWettering

I’ve seen some bad paint jobs on cars recently. One guy had some kind of Franken-car that looked like half Gremlin, half Honda, lowered, with huge rims and a body that looked like it was made poorly from paper mache. But as I have often suspected, it’s often just the craftsman that makes the difference. Witness the nifty paint job on this Corvair:

50 Dollar Paint

The trick? It’s done with Rustoleum and rollers. Lots of coats. Lots of wet sanding and buffing. Very neat. If I had some beater to paint, I might even think about doing it this way. Maybe some future robotics project will benefit from this knowledge…