1st Paint job

[gus280z]

Ive decided to paint the car over the summer,  it is a tremendous task to undertake but ive decided that there is only one way to learn....

the car has tons of rust, the rear, the quarters the fenders and the doors are all rotted. Im doing this the wrong way..bondo.

 

here it is before any work

 

 

day 1   bondo.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[gus280z]

I found a hood that is in better shape than mine was (notice all the rust holes in the first pic) 

[JoeCool]

Bondo is not going to last.

[TENDRIL]

why not just fix the rust than hit with 40 gt paper wher the bondo is needed?

 

 

bondo only really likes to stick (for a longer time) to bare metal with big scratches,

 

it will peel and fall off in less than a year from the looks of it, this is fine if your only spending 50 bucks on rattle cans, and for your purpose you would have been better of fiber glassing  

[gus280z]

why not just fix the rust than hit with 40 gt paper wher the bondo is needed?

 

 

bondo only really likes to stick (for a longer time) to bare metal with big scratches,

 

it will peel and fall off in less than a year from the looks of it, this is fine if your only spending 50 bucks on rattle cans, and for your purpose you would have been better of fiber glassing  

Im not familiar with fiberglass, but i assume that you have to bondo over that too right?  I sanded the rust with 80, i thought 40 would be too coarse. I know ideally all the panels would be replaced or metal would be welded on and what not but I dont have the time or money or skill to do that.

[gus280z]

Finished taping today and then the first coat of primer

[gus280z]

 

 

 

[gus280z]

More work was done after wetsanding....skimming 

[gus280z]

Resprayed primer one last time...wetsanded today and hopefully ill be done friday with the base and clear 

[Power Tryp]

Beautiful! Keep it up. Home done paint jobs are great, especially when they look near as good as a pro job.

[gus280z]

Here is the final product guys, This has been an amazing learning experience, people said painting was hard and blah blah blah....well painting is not hard it just takes patience and lots of prepping...while my paint job may not be perfect its a HUGE improvement to what the car used to look like :D and im impressed with my self, specially being my first paint job.