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Originally Posted by vwnate1
? Have you googled "$50 paint job " ? .
It's from the early internet days but still remains the best way to get a cheap yet good looking paint job on your beater .
Also, many RV'ers use commercial grade floor wax on their super huge rigs and converted school buses .
As always, the amount of prep work -you- do is far more important than the co$t of the paint job in the end .
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That's the system I'm working from...but it's going to be more along the lines of a $200 job, once I gather the paint, sponge rollers, and other things. Still, it's a hell of a lot cheaper than the $1500 everyone wants around here to spray. My total budget on the truck was $5000 in 2009 money. I'm knocking on that limit's door right now, since I dropped $250 in replacement panels. I've moved that limit up to $5500, and think I can come in at that price, and have set aside an additional $250, just in case.
Part of the fun on this has been working within a budget, and finding options to keep the prices low. I've traded off stuff I had in the basement that were useless to me for things I wanted or needed for the truck...like a Queen Anne style coffee and side tables for a set of steel rims with semi decent tires. Those tires have been replaced, but the steelies are still rolling great...better than the chewed up, dealer applied aftermarket aluminum rims that were far from balanced.
I'm setting up the garage today with drop cloths and horses to keep things easy to work on and the floor tidy. I've got some years of oxidation to try to remove before the first coat of color is applied...as well as layers of wax to get rid of.
I've got a guy in the Cincy area searching his collection of parts for the wiring harness I need to operate the power doors. These door shut on the old truck like a Mercedes' doors do...solid without rattle. I'd rather not take them apart, swap out the guts, and risk putting rattles back on the truck. I'll need to source new door cards, though...mine are blue, and these are red. If they were both manual doors, it wouldn't be an issue, but...
Anyway, time to get woke up enough to get at it.