Where is the best place to buy auto paint from and what paint is the best to use? The reason i am asking is a friends dad does professional auto painting and said he'd paint my car for the price of paint. So, where and what are the best places/best paint to use? Oh and i want YELLOW by the way!
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Brian
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Re: Paint!
Did he know when he made that offer that you wanted to do a dramatic color change? It's much more difficult and expensive to get good results with a color change, especially a dramatic one.
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Who's doing the prepwork? That's the real money sucker in a paint job. Without good prepwork, it'll be a shitty paintjob.
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Yeah he knows its a drastic paint change and we are both doing the prep work, gonna do this the right way the first time.
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Re: Paint!
i have a friend who paints cars. ask the dude what paint he prefers and where he gets it from...
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PPG is what my dad used to paint his motorcycle a while ago. Turned out really nice.
And lucky you for being able to repaint your car. I need some bodywork and a new coat.
And lucky you for being able to repaint your car. I need some bodywork and a new coat.
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I think you are too young for plastic surgery and for a coat I recommend a department store.1974Alfa5spd wrote: I need some bodywork and a new coat.
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Curse this time change, this is what my brain functions like when I get up at the equivalent of 5:30.AHTOXA wrote:I think you are too young for plastic surgery and for a coat I recommend a department store.1974Alfa5spd wrote: I need some bodywork and a new coat.
If I get that Jaguar and restore that to drivable condition (IE tires, and fluids change), then I can rip the trim and glass out of the Alfa and paint it myself. There's also a patch near the trunk lid that needs to be cut out and replaced, and a wrinkly patch near the front parking lamp where dads' Goldwing fell on it. (Not to mention the windshield needs re-seating pretty badly.)1974Alfa5spd wrote:It needs some bodywork and a new coat.
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