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Just got done painting my truck. i still have a few more coats to do to the primer, but i finished the top in a glossy stadium blue or something like that. it was a rustoleum glossy.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y9/...cture008-1.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y9/...cture006-1.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y9/...cture005-2.jpg

hopefully these all show up. thanks for the feedback, i knwo its not super great, but for spending 30 bucks it looks damn good

i didnt mean to match the interior but i kind of did, i almost went for Key Lime. but thought it might be to flamboyant haha the passenger side still needs a coat or 2

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i also need to paint around the door

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Sail Blue?

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Wow for primer that looks great! Nice job

-Jc

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is the blue spray paint or the flat black lol, blue looks GOOD

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Bro, if you lived closer i'd to the painting for free if you bought the supplies! If you can spray paint that well then you can learn to operate a paint gun!

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Billet wheels, billet steering wheel and $20 paint!:crazy: Just dont make any since to do all that work(truck looks pretty straight) for a crap paint job. MAACO would be 1000 times better job than rattle cans.

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Yeah, it takes real skills to shoot from a can. :lol:At least take a little more time to tape up the rubbers around the windows. That will cheapen the looks of a paint job almost as fast as rustoleum.

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ya just buy the rustoleum in a quart of the color you want... setup a HVLP gun and start spraying.....roof looks great

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Maybe you would consider getting off the guys back.

Your way is just that… YOUR way, and to each his own.

Besides, I want to hear about what everybody doese… his, mine and everybody else’s is just as interesting to read about.

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Your right.... it IS his truck. my OPINION is, it doesn't make since to have more money in a steering wheel than in your paint job. Hell, he'll have money money filling his truck with gas than in the paint job. For a couple of hundred bucks you can prep your truck yourself, send it to MAACO and get a decent paint job. And I still stand by my comment about taking 5 more minutes to do a better job tapping up the rubbers around the windows.

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And besides, when he decides to paint his truck for real, he'll be SORRY that he sprayed rustoleum on it. It will ALL have to come back off.

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I like what you've done, HotGMC. I hope you used one of those spray can trigger attachments.

Vintagesteel, you might have some good advice for him, but dropping it on his head is no way to do it. We're all here because we love our trucks and we do the best we know how.

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Looks pretty good from here like the blue roof

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anybody notice the shaved door handles?????

I wil say take your time taping or just pull the window...( most around here need a good sanding and painting behind the rubber anyway and it takes 5 min to put back in ).....

as far as rustoleum my truck was sprayed by PO runs everywhere ( he was at best a hack) I will say it sands off pretty easy...it was the 5 other coats under it that where a PIA

I think your heading in the right direction now get that girl down on the road and let her eat!!!

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x 2.

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x 2.

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Dont pay him any mind he is ALL ways dogging some one out.


looks good for spray can

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Truck looks good! I wouldn't mind seeing it on a flat surface so we can check out the stance. What drop do you have?

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Ok I appologize. I shouldnt have just popped in and started in. WHY did you decide to use rustoleum? The amount of work that looks like has been done to the truck(looks pretty straight, shaved emblems, door handles, ect...).does the truck not deserve a better paint job? No matter what you do, it will ALWAYS be a rattle can paint job at best. Like I said before, for a couple hundred bucks you could have prepped the truck and taken it to MAACO and had a decent job done.

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hey vintagesteel, not to hi-jack the thread, but id be instrested in some of the vehicles you've did the paint/body work....would you make a thread showing this??

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This is an apology? :confused:

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Excellent post. I agree.

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What would be the point in this? To SHOW you what I know? I'm just asking legit questions( Why did he decide on using rustoleum? And with all the work it looks like he's done, does his truck NOT deserve to have a better paint job? ) and giving advice(For a couple of hundred dollars, MAACO will put decent paint on). If his truck DOESN'T desrve a better paint job, then go for it. If he stops and thinks about it and decides it DOES, then it will SAVE him money because then it wont have to have all that rattle can stripped back off for a better job.

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That's as good a job as I have ever seen any MAACO do.

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Looks good at least your appears to be road worthy...

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Thats looks good hotgmc, how long did it take?

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Looks koo!!

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Because maaco is known for their great paint jobs:waah: For what he did and what it cost him, i thinks it looks good. Quit hating..

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point is, im instrested in finding a good paint/body person to do the paint/body for some of the trucks i do....you claim to be a paint/body guy for over 20 years, you offer discourageing help, put down others, and have yet to back-up your skills.....im not a fan of painting your truck with a rattle can or useing maaco either, but i kept my mouth shut...so the point is, your words would have more credit, and sound less condescending, if you offer help with less attitude....also i wanna see how good your work is;)

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The product is the main issue here. There was never a comment that he did a bad job spray painting his rig. Vintage (and all of us other pros) have this discussion a lot in other boards. It is just tough to know the bad that has been done to the and trying to give advice and get accused of "ripping into people". Sorry guys, but he is right. The Macco job would save money and look better. And it would last longer.

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And to back up my own statement of the pros here is one I did.

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I HAVE been a paint/body guy for 21 years.
What discouraging help?
I will appologize for putting him down
As far as backing up my skills, read all my posts, I think I've backed up PLENTY
As far as my words would have more credit... I've appologized for the attitude, and NOTHING I said was FALSE. I'm NOT a fan of MAACO.But it's obvious he wants to do it inexpensively. You will not get a cheaper job than letting MAACO do it, especially if you dont have a place to do it your self or the skills with AUTOMOTIVE paint, . Its a fact. Prep the truck, let them spray. Then when it cures wet sand and polish. And MAACO is STILL 1000 times better than rattle can, or ANYTHING put out by rustoleum, Duplicolor, KRYLON....

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Some folks don't have enough cash even for a MAACO job.

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You guys arguing back and forth need to take it elsewhere.

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If you cant say anything nice, dont say anything at all. If you "pros" complain about this all the time on "the other boards", go do it over there. If all he had was $20-$30 bucks in his pocket and he wanted to do something to change it up a bit then let him be. I think it looks fine and if anyone else has negative feedback keep it to yourself. I'm tired of hearing people with lots of money or better resources bad mouthing other people who dont. I thought this board was here to show our trucks and project ideas with others without having to worry about some jackass beating you down about it.

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Hey 1972SuperCheyenne ... you too need to drop it.

You're comments are only adding fuel to the fire and that is considere pot stirring.

If this keeps up the thread will be locked.

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I was not trying to imply that my paint job is all that great. but when i started my original primer was fading badly, and it looked like ****. it cost me roughly 30-40 bucks to do this, and honestly it looks a lot better.

you can knock on me all you want, but im still semi proud of my accomplishment. i wasnt going for show quality, i wasnt even going for maaco quality, i just was tired of looking at my light grey faded primer. it took me a day and a half total with the help of my cousin. i didnt use the can tips that came with it, i switched it for one thta came off of a Montana spray can.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y9/...9900905608.jpg
(that was the unfinished side,m that i had not yet sanded or sprayed with primer)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y9/...9900818596.jpg
(now this is the side i finished first with the primer.

i originally was going to just keep it all black, but me and my cousin decided to just throw some color on there, and it actually matches the dash.

and oh yeah sorry for "offending" some of you with my horrible painting skills. ha

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oh and about "the maaco paintjob would last longer" i wasnt expecting this to last more than a few months. this summer i should have the means to give her a real paint job, and i think im going to go with a deep metallic purple, so it looks black at night, but in the light you can tell its purple.

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I agree with Shane. I also agree with Vintagesteel in the fact that, if you are going to spend big $$$ on wheels and tires and other accessories and then spray can your ride, you might get a member or two asking why you are choosing that route when you went high dollar on the other stuff.

If you post a thread showing how you did something, do you expect ONLY those people who agree with your way of doing something to respond?

I painted my truck orange, but not everyone likes orange. I did my interior in gray tweed, but not everyone likes tweed. If a member says, "Dude, you should have painted it blue, or you should have used Dupont instead of Valspar...", I would just kindly explain why I chose what I did so that maybe others can learn why I did something a certain way.

This site is about learning. When other members post different ideas and thoughts, when they don't agree with what you personally believe, maybe someone else reading might look at it and go, "hmmm, I never thought of doing it that way before."

Just my 2 cents, not worth allot.

Don