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I think he's taking the DA to it as we speak, and taking ALL the paint off it, putting it in primer so you guys attending the BBQ can spend your day blocking it out and prepping it for fresh paint.

AMEN!!!

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HEY! No one told me there is going to be a painting clinic this year and my contribution is my truck! :confused:

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HEY! No one told me there is going to be a painting clinic this year and my contribution is my truck! :confused:

I'm gonna have to stop for some rattle cans...I can't bring them on the plane!

 

:)

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A nice plaid paint job would be a big improvement. You can find such paint in the Martha Stewart spray paint collection. It comes in a square can with an adorable soft toned rattle inside that is easy on your ears..

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Don, be thankful they're willing to drive you. All my family and friends insist it's close enough that I can walk.

Back on topic (sort of): had a friend in High School who had a Valiant known as the Bondo Bandit. He held a "bring what you have rattle can party." Lot's of fun while it's happening, but you also have to be very ok with massive runs...

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I hauled the "Phoenix" home from 48dodger's yesterday. Now I'm obliged to have it running before my daughter arrives at the end of the month. So. . . new wiring, new glass, new front tires, new seats, new steering wheel, new fuel pump, tune up and then see what remains. She is very artistic, so I'll wet sand the entire truck then together we'll decide on the 'designer patina'. 

 

To be Continued

 

 

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How about a paint job, think your way past the "Flavor of the times" Patina at this point. Should be fairly easy to strip out and prep now...

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for real...the underside may be in very rough shape...the longer you put off the stop action treatment..the deeper the pits are going to be...dire and thin gauge metal are not friends by any means...the process from patina to canker is short step

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You come along way back, some of us would have thrown in the towel, I'm sure that what ever you decide to do to the truck it will never have as much character as you do for sticking by her when the going got tough.

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". . . Truck is bare metal with a coat of WD-40 ( I leave this truck outside with no problems). . ."  I tried WD 40 on my tail gate some time back does hold but it is an oil and it penetrates the metal. If someone wants to paint later, that WD can work it's way back. . .  

 

To me it is not a patina truck, this one is not to my liking, and everything under neath is NOT mopar.

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". . . Truck is bare metal with a coat of WD-40 ( I leave this truck outside with no problems). . ."  I tried WD 40 on my tail gate some time back does hold but it is an oil and it penetrates the metal. If someone wants to paint later, that WD can work it's way back. . .  

 

To me it is not a patina truck, this one is not to my liking, and everything under neath is NOT mopar.

great, now strip, prep and paint, it is time....

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You could do this in nickels for 5 times this price and have nicketina as opposed to pennytina

 

The $383.00 Paint Job . . ..
 
1949 Cadillac, completely covered with 38,295 pennies! (USA 1 cents).  
They were affixed one by one using Silicone. They added over 200 pounds
to the vehicle's weight.  The entire project took 6 weeks. The pennies are
American, and include an 1817 "Big Cent", two Error Pennies, and four
1943 Steel pennies; (but who's counting?).  And, it won't scratch.
 
 

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For 200 lbs of copper scrap you could get a paintjob and not have to worry about tarnish!

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Well, this is what I've got to work with. It's going to require all new wires.  Will go with 12 volt this time. 

 

A brief response to the exterior. I appreciate the encouragement to paint. Yet then what I will have is another pretty truck. I enjoyed the conversations I had with the other exterior so will not paint. Will have to see where it all leads.

 

 

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that is one outer panel coating that will not nickel and dime  you to death...

 

 

guess I just have to ask...are they all heads up or tails up or a mixture and if mixed is there a pattern?

 

Don...if you were to do true blue in dimes you would have ten times the finish this guy got...

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Well, this is what I've got to work with. It's going to require all new wires.  Will go with 12 volt this time. 

 

A brief response to the exterior. I appreciate the encouragement to paint. Yet then what I will have is another pretty truck. I enjoyed the conversations I had with the other exterior so will not paint. Will have to see where it all leads.

 

 

I can imagine some of the conversations they had after they left talking to you...

 

 

 

 

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