Appleseed
Appleseed SuperDork
8/10/11 4:27 p.m.

Well, it's come to the point in my beater's life that I just don't give a e36 m3 about the paint. With advanced cancer, its eating itself to death. That coupled to half assed bodywork (it involved an accident from a PIT maneuver, I swear) means it needs a ghetto makeover.

I tried to search GRM for the famous truck bed liner Audi, but to no avail.

Any info or knowledge on how to do this? What prep work? Scuff the OG paint, or strip it. What brand paint to use? ...etc...

Or, if there is a link, save yourself some trouble, and pop up the linky.

Thanks in advance. If this doesn't turn into a complete cluster-berkley, I'll post up pics.

BTW, its a 1995 Chevy Caprice 9C1 cop car.

flountown
flountown Reader
8/10/11 4:42 p.m.

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?4064843/page1

Zomby woof
Zomby woof SuperDork
8/10/11 6:36 p.m.

You might find some inspiration here

http://rolledon.forummotion.com/

Dr. Hess
Dr. Hess SuperDork
8/10/11 7:45 p.m.

Truck bed liner is not cheap. I did my gas tanks in the Esprit with it and it took 2 cans at about $80 or so to do.

Taiden
Taiden HalfDork
8/10/11 9:20 p.m.
Zomby woof wrote: You might find some inspiration here http://rolledon.forummotion.com/

Oh. Oh my.

mad_machine
mad_machine GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
8/10/11 9:26 p.m.
Dr. Hess wrote: Truck bed liner is not cheap. I did my gas tanks in the Esprit with it and it took 2 cans at about $80 or so to do.

I have thought of doing the floors in my fiat with it

914Driver
914Driver SuperDork
8/11/11 6:06 a.m.

I did the floors of a BMW track car, one $50 can did it.

Why not just buy the cheapest paint you can and roll it on with a foam roller? You want ghetto or abrasive?

Dan

Raze
Raze Dork
8/11/11 6:32 a.m.

plasti-kote works nicely and can be removed if you don't like the results by peeling it off. I used topside marine boat paint on the XR4, covered the whole car for the cost of $35 quart of paint, $5 paint thinner, foam roller, etc. I had $57 in paint when I was done. Truck bedliner would be cool but it's $. Though I've seen the gallon size el-cheapo roll on bedliner at Walmart for $50. Don't know how far it would get you...

4cylndrfury
4cylndrfury SuperDork
8/11/11 7:55 a.m.
Taiden wrote:
Zomby woof wrote: You might find some inspiration here http://rolledon.forummotion.com/
Oh. Oh my.

seriously...look at that 68 'stang! Its Glorious!

DoctorBlade
DoctorBlade Dork
8/11/11 10:17 a.m.

That C-10 in there looks great as well. Fauxtina, indeed.

slefain
slefain SuperDork
8/11/11 1:03 p.m.
Zomby woof wrote: You might find some inspiration here http://rolledon.forummotion.com/

Noooo no no no no bad bad bad. Nooooooo....

Man the '61 would look cool with new paint...(click)

Taiden
Taiden HalfDork
8/11/11 1:38 p.m.

What colors in roll on do you guys think would look decent? Blues seem like a terrible idea without flake/pearl.

Can you mix flake / pearl into rustoleum?

Am I going to spend $250 on a $5000 paint job soon?

oldsaw
oldsaw SuperDork
8/11/11 2:31 p.m.
Zomby woof wrote: You might find some inspiration here http://rolledon.forummotion.com/

Bookmarked............

TIGMOTORSPORTS
TIGMOTORSPORTS Reader
8/12/11 9:39 p.m.

Truck bed liner works good for bumpers.

I would go Tractor Enamel. It's the sleeper of cheap paint. I painted an old pickup once with it - its tough stuff.

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