DollyDodge Posted September 21, 2015 Report Posted September 21, 2015 I know some won't like to see this photo , but I decided to prime the hood. When I got to looking at it when I went to put it back on I realized how bad of shape the metal was. So I used one of those paint and rust remover discs along with sanding, and got it to bare metal. I used the Eastwood self etching primer in a can. In any event, at least he engine area has all been painted now. I figure if I work at it slowly I can get the old truck painted in time. 1 Quote
Merle Coggins Posted September 21, 2015 Report Posted September 21, 2015 Like getting a nose job... Lookin' good, 1 Quote
Phil363 Posted September 21, 2015 Report Posted September 21, 2015 (edited) Looks great to me!!! Thanks for the photos. Edited September 21, 2015 by Phil363 1 Quote
ruff1148kr Posted September 21, 2015 Report Posted September 21, 2015 Hood Looks great Nice job 1 Quote
pflaming Posted September 23, 2015 Report Posted September 23, 2015 Looks good, yet I hate to see natures art work covered up. 1 Quote
HanksB3B Posted September 23, 2015 Report Posted September 23, 2015 Looks good, yet I hate to see natures art work covered up. Paul, I was thinking you would squirm and loose sleep over that. Hank 1 Quote
DollyDodge Posted September 23, 2015 Author Report Posted September 23, 2015 Paul: you were who I was thinking of too who might not like the paint job, but the hood really was getting to be really corroded-it surprised me how bad of shape it had gotten to. Quote
Jeff Balazs Posted September 23, 2015 Report Posted September 23, 2015 Paul, I was thinking you would squirm and loose sleep over that. Hank He is not the only one I have always been very fond of the way Dolly Doge looked. I do get it.....but I did like the way it looked. Must have a bit of desert rat in me. I just hung the rusty old original drivers door off my truck in the shop. I plan on "lettering" it with a cutting torch to make it into a sign. Jeff 2 Quote
pflaming Posted September 23, 2015 Report Posted September 23, 2015 Dolly, all is not lost. Paint that hood a matt brown and it will look great, then paint a recycle icon on the pack tail gate and maybe a road runner! 1 Quote
Desotodav Posted September 24, 2015 Report Posted September 24, 2015 The old DD still looks good to me. You could paint him with one of those rust-look paints... http://www.sprayonrustpaint.co.uk/... to keep PP on side !! 1 Quote
pflaming Posted September 24, 2015 Report Posted September 24, 2015 The dry climate in that desert is shrinking DD's brain! So sad! Like one politician said "a mind is a terrible thing to 'lose'"... Quote
Jeff Balazs Posted September 24, 2015 Report Posted September 24, 2015 The dry climate in that desert is shrinking DD's brain! So sad! Like one politician said "a mind is a terrible thing to 'lose'"... ???????? Could have only come from PP As much as I liked the look of DD..even I get it. DD needed some protection from the elements or things were going to get bad. Makes sense. Long live Dolly Dodge! I wonder how long El Scorcho will last in it's present condition? Jeff Quote
pflaming Posted September 25, 2015 Report Posted September 25, 2015 2014 here in Fresno, Ca., from 1-1 to 12-31 we got 1.1 inch of rain. Now that is drier than a pop corn fart, so El Scorcho should last for quite some time. 1 Quote
48Dodger Posted September 28, 2015 Report Posted September 28, 2015 (edited) Time made DD what she is today......back in the day, she was painted, rolled out of the factory and put to work. There are pictures of her at work in her original form and color, this much we have seen. Her efforts, the way she survived, the deeds she has done are all documented as well....she wasn't forgotten. Today she is a truck with a strong motor and a new set of shoes. I personally have about 20 pictures on file of the rust and dust that makes her the beauty in the recent years that she has been worked on. If she continues to be sanded, primered, and painted......I look forward to it, she has earned it. 48D Edited September 29, 2015 by 48dodger 2 Quote
pflaming Posted September 28, 2015 Report Posted September 28, 2015 Putting a coat of paint on Dolly would be like putting a blouse on Venius de Milo! Quote
Jeff Balazs Posted September 29, 2015 Report Posted September 29, 2015 Putting a coat of paint on Dolly would be like putting a blouse on Venius de Milo! I hate to say this........but I sorta feel the same as Paul. 1 Quote
HanksB3B Posted September 29, 2015 Report Posted September 29, 2015 Putting a coat of paint on Dolly would be like putting a blouse on Venius de Milo! Ther's a few of patina trucks out there I like. This is one of them. I hate to say this........but I sorta feel the same as Paul. me too, Hank 1 Quote
John-T-53 Posted September 29, 2015 Report Posted September 29, 2015 If DD gets to wear a new coat of paint, the patina won't be lost. It'll merely just be put on hold, preserving the ol' gal's bones for another cycle of weathering, to a point in the future where another generation (and maybe some of us well-matured young'uns) will pick up this conversation where it's left. 1 Quote
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