Here in Phoenix, you can rent a paint booth. I do not claim to be a great car painter, but I have painted 3 cars and 2 of them came out pretty good. . I used to be a spot welder at a factory that built swamp coolers. I was young and dumb and would try to make the coolers as fast as I could, which resulted in me running out of work. When this happened, they would put me in the paint booth to paint the coolers that I just made. I got pretty good at laying down a good coat of paint on a cooler. I learned how to color sand drips and orange peeling, although I don't know if that works with clear coat jobs, that didn't exist when I was painting. I do know that as a painter, I am a pretty good fireman. The thing is that the body prep is 95% of how it is going to look. Paint hides nothing, especially black...Mark

 

Well Not living in the City is what help's and what goes on inside the garage and they don't know about won't hurt them . I do understand what your sayin but we get away with alot out in the Calif Desert

 

You are correct, its all in the prep! Im close to a hundred hours just in body work, priming, blocking, re priming, re blocking etc,etc. It makes all the difference in the world. I'm also a big fan of taking every window out of the truck and every piece of trim and door handles. It makes a paint job look way more professional. I hate vehicles that have over spray all over everything. That's just lazyness to me



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Steele Rubber has front and rear window seals/gaskets. I would think the rear window would be simple, flat pieces of glass to replace but I haven't looked into it myself. Apparently, not so simple.

 

Bryson, I absolutely agree! The prep work is the hard part. Spraying is quick.

At op. Did you consider what they would charge to just start from bare metal and do the whole truck?

If it was me I wouldn't wanna do a paint job or pay for a paint job unless it was frame off and went to bare metal. But I'm **** like that with things that require detail and quality.

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Well, then just give me your money, and I'll have that done...






Seriously,

This work painting the upper sector of the truck is being done in an attempt to "preserve" the truck so I don't start having a rust issue where all of these east coast rust belt trucks rot out.. If at some time in the future I run into a boatload of cash, I'm going to fully restore the truck to what I want it to be. Right now, it's just my way of temporarily...or permanently (we'll see how that goes) stopping the rust from progressing from a simple surface issue to something much deeper.

When and if I ever do what I want, that dang nabbit gutter is getting ripped off and I'm going to weld up that roof like it should have been done when built. It's been done to these trucks by some, and that's what I'll do then. For now, it's just being protected against the elements.

 

That's hilarious, right as I was reading your post, that Geico commercial about how Old McDonald spells was on the tv, now that is a coincidence ...Mark

 

Coincidence......


C o i n c i d e n c e e i e i o


Coincidence.


That's why I use FFox... If it's in question, it turns red...

 

NJT your truck looks mint compared to my slag. I now can honestly say I have the ugliest truck on the board. That roof gutter always rots out up in these parts, only problem I have is that I have one PITA lund visor bolted so I cant get to the lip in order to salvage what I can. Good luck on your painting endeavours.

 

I dropped my truck off last week to get it painted. A friend of mine is doing it. Was going to be the hood and the roof. The person that owned it before me tried to buff the hood and roof burned the paint. Well the friend called said to do it right needs to paint the whole cab. I Said do what you have too. Then he called said would have to strip the cab to metal the only way to do it right. I got lucky freind said he would charge me same price but i would have to pay more for the material used. If you get a price on doing the hood and roof ask what it would cost if they did have to paint the whole cab.

 

Look Ma ! No rot !



That's a relief

The windshield came out relatively easy for the first time in 25 years removing one. Last one I did was a 1967 plymouth baccaruda fastback that I took the glass from... and I think I still have the rear window of...



I disassembled cleaned, sealed and re-assembled the rear window since they're not available anymore from chrysler. It was relatively easy to do, as there are just 4 screws in the frame, and it pulls apart. After a thorough cleaning, I siliconed the seals and put it back together. That should be good for the next 20 years or so.... I hope.



I started with the other parts as well. The porthole windows frames needed to be attended to, so while I had them out, I cleaned, sanded, primed and painted them to help protect against any rust for at least the time being. I'll clean them before they get installed and when the paint has cured fully.



I drove it around like this today... and I tell you the looks I got by other drivers was a real hoot...



I'll take a video of it the next time I'm in it... You cannot believe how LOUD it is, and the amount of heat you get off the engine.... It's like being on a motorcycle with a cummins in front of you.....

 

In Arizona, a cracked windshield gets you pulled over and deported by Joe Arpayo, that would get you executed...Mark

 

Well, that would just solve my problems, now wouldn't it.....??

 

???...Mark

 

Once you're dead..... you cannot have any more problems.....




Well, unless of course you believe in satan, hell and damnation and hellfire.