Another huge reason for the direction I'm going with the paint and body is when I first decided on getting a classic to tinker on, I settled on a truck for the practicality of it.
I want to be able to use it as a truck.
This last Wednesday was the perfect example.
I went to pick up a big steel gate. It didnt quite fit in the bed.
It caused some pretty good scratches.
No big thing. Just hit it with some sandpaper, and touch it up.
I own a truck.
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Here is a post Mark made quite some time back that stuck with me and convinced me of the direction I wanted to take for the body and paint:
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Originally Posted by markeb01
That’s exactly why I used it, I've had more fun with the truck since the blitz black than I ever did when it was wearing shiny paint. I drive it everywhere now. Before I used to worry about the paint getting scratched.
I originally painted the truck in gloss black lacquer (which chips easily) nearly 15 years ago. It was my daily driver for a 72 mile commute for 9 years and we lived on a rock road, so the paint really took a beating. Due to the number of chips, and since I didn’t want to disassemble the truck to strip all the lacquer I just feather edged everything and then surfaced the bad areas with U-Pol primer (applied with a roller). I also removed all the seam sealer on the roof and resealed it with self-leveling Evercoat Maxim.
I bought two gallons of paint (just in case) and used about 5 quarts to paint the exterior. I didn’t paint inside the bed. It was either $30 a gallon or $50 a gallon. I don’t remember for sure and lost my receipts in a computer crash back in August. With all that, some thinner, Rage body filler, and sand paper I probably had another $100-$150 dollars invested when it was all done. So it cost somewhere a little over $200 for the whole job.
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