Frame is looking good! What are your plans for paint, powder coat? Good info and timing on those Buick style drums....Looking at a set from Boling Brothers for my roadster Wish you best of luck in your surgery and a quick healing!
Welp! That’s it until I get my surgery on Tuesday I got me a little bench project or two got the clutch pedal all torn apart and cleaned up! Thanks for the prayers and well wishes!
Thanks! Was trying to get it cleaned and painted before, surgery. But oh well! Since my frame Has patches, and pitting... I’m painting it with this brush on industrial rustoleum black enamel we use at work for painting out door equipment, motors, pumps, piping etc. You can paint right over dirty nasty metal. But since my frame will be clean. It ought to turn out real nice! I am also going to paint the inside of the body with it. Then thin it way out and paint the wood. After that, Im going to brush on some under coating inside, and the bottom of the floor! I want it to look like a home built Rod from the 60’s ! Then I am going “ Patina the original brown primer, faded black lacquer look! I’m cheap! And I don’t wanna worry about oit in parking lots and Such. It’s going to be a daily driver.(at least 3-4 days a week, weather permitting!)
I’m so excited! My high dollar expensive faded Black Lacquer- Ford Brown-primer simulator paint has finally come in! What’s a paint job and body work nowadays, 15-20 grand? I think my whole custom patina paint job including sand paper, brillo pads, everything might be about 250? I did buy a quart of duaglas bondo, For the rough spots! (just hope the paint doesn’t go bad before I get to the body!) Ha!
You got my attention. I like patina. That was my 1st ever attempt to a paint job. I did a patina in '51 chevy
Cool! Me likes’....A-lot! I think I read some of your earlier posts is that the truck you had shoved in a really small garage and utilized the space? I don’t know if you were watching my thread when I played around a little bit back in the beginning with the same paint just to see if I could match the original patina that wasn’t checked? I was going to use the original paint, but it is really bad at least about 2/3 of the car so I’m debating whether to leave some of the original Patina, or just take it all down the metal and fake it for a while. that also would be easier to strip back off, if I do a real paint job later. I really just wanna drive the car have fun and not worry about shopping carts and crap like that. It’s fun lets me use my artistic side of me, and I think it looks cool as heck! Since then I found the actual flat brown paint that looks exactly like the original dark brown primer Ford used back then stead of the red oxide. This is real similar to the look I like, like a time warp, but not over done! Real similar to this 35’ except for not so much primer showing I’m trying to achieve this older 33’ look, somewhere in between this one and 35’ pick up Some of the older guys on here (including my Pops) think I’m absolutely crazy putting thousands of dollars in the to car....in my dad‘s words “then make it look like shit! I told him it’s gonna look cool trust me! I’m an artist! He’s just not a visionary like I am!
@33Doll, @Nailhead Jason did a revival on his 39 Sedan in a lowbuck manner and it looked pretty darn snazzy...just sharing options He did it by section starting with the link below... https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...39-back-to-life.1018747/page-13#post-13533616
Shiny paint, 1st choice. All this effort, to "patina" ?? Just get some Mop N Glo. Not a big deal. Its an easily removable floor clear, that's a hell of a lot easier to apply .. then sand, spray, clear whatever .. for the "sh*t lookin'" effect. USAF, flight line guys used it on their military drab aircraft for years. Also painted the white letters on their Firestones .. but that's another story. Take care !!
I say make it shiny for cheap. Drive it hard and use it right it will grow enough scars and wear on its own. But each to their own.
I think I’m gonna do exactly what the guy with the 39 did. But I’ll have to do the whole car like he did the roof!because the original paint sucks! I look at this as an artistic challenge! Believe me it’s gonna look cool when I’m done with it! I probably just shouldn’t tell you guys my plans, and just wait till it’s all done then you’ll go...what did you do?
@33Doll I have to also mention Hamber @Chris who rescues many a tired paintjob with pretty dramatic results...I'll see if I can find any Threads and add them to this post... https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/saving-original-paint.1113120/
Are you planning on a clear coat? Are you going to need one? My '36 on the avatar was painted by PO with a satin DTM product and it looked really nice at first but started getting chalky white after a while from routine washing .
I dunno, I think I’m just gonna wet sand buff, wax to see what I come up with! Like the 39’ job! Really like that one!
Chris also had a 46 or 7 ford Coupe and it had a flat or satin finish and buffed it up and it looked fantastic...I was just searching his Featured Threads...he's had a fair number of those...Chris really has a passion for preservation of past finishes...as he says they're only old once... Jason's paint is lacquer...I think your going to do very well with whatever path you choose...I look forward to your continued progress but all the best in your medical situation and speedy recovery...
I’ve done this with regular rustoleum before on old bikes, harleys not schwins , and the biggest thing to do is get the paint hard. Regular rustoleum can take forever to get hard. I’d recommend spraying and putting in the sun to bake them sand. Put it back in the sun to bake for a few days, then polish. Even if it sands good once you start polishing the area gets some heat in it and the rustoleum can get soft then smear and make a huge mess. That’s why I used the lacquer, it works much better. Also tractor supply sells tractor paint by the gallon that sprays cuts and buffs great. Just don’t put it on top of rustoleum primer. It will soften it and bleed through the top coat.
Thanks Jason! I was wondering about the lacquer versus the regular rest oleum, I have color sanded it before and have had no problem just haven’t tried to buffet, we’ll see if I’m “allowed”to buy a lacquer paint here in California! Every time I try they start to ship it andthen I get this big “sorry we can’t ship to California!” I really enjoyed reading your thread on your 39, my 33 used to look like that with the black original lacquer, but my dad repainted it with some old lacquer he had laying around in the 80s and it didn’t flash right or something so It looked great for a while, then started cracking after a few years and then looked like crap with rust forming underneath and popping the flakes!
I used marine paint. It's supposed to be like lacquer. They paint tug boats and yachts with the stuff
The Duplicolor Paint Shop line is lacquer. They have black but I don’t know about the red/brown primer you want, maybe you could tint what’s available. It’s available at o’reilly and NAPA stores. I sprayed my dash with it and it looks like black lacquer from the old days. Sent from my iPad using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Doing a little “Light” Duty work today. Probably still heavier than the Doctor wants. I’ll quit when I get the second drum drilled for 4.5 Bolt pattern! I’m getting a little bit sore.
All done with that! Now I can run either bolt pattern! Early Ford or later Mustang era! Cool Beans...Jean! Im tired already. Damn surgeries!
Cool! Got a little bit more done today! Not bad for Gimp on the mend! Healing pretty good BTW! Had to take it apart 3-4 times! The copper sleeves get tweaked real easy trying to get them in all the way past the edge, real thin buggers! Reamed out, worked back and forth several times! All good now!
WOW!!!!! Thats My Aunt Dolly! (RIP) Probably right after she got the 33 doll! What year was that, do you know? Man! We used to go to Andy’s picnic all the time! That’s one of the things I remember and I was only like three or four years old! I probably have the plaque for that one! Thanks so much for finding that, I got to send that to my Pop! By Golly The Doll is Almost Famous! Cool!
I was close! Found the 7th annual! And a Valley of the Moon which is somewhere I think Crow Canyon, Napa Sonoma? maybe even half Moon Bay I don’t know? I was just a Tot! then I’m surprised I remember anything! It’s sad that car was so beautiful! look at it now!
Welp! More done today! Got about 2/3 of the frame done! Not bad for three days of work being a gimp trying to get healed again !(just don’t tell the wife) Frames not that heavy. I’m just sliding it. Not like I’m flipping it over or anything!
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