Roller Paint Job Diary

I don't know if it's for the big CFL Football game this weekend, here in town (Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Saskatchewan Roughriders: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/story/2007/11/09/roughriders-playofffever.html) or for my project, but the next 5 days are all running above 4C to 9C (39F to 48F) and only 30% chance of precip.

Mother Nature and Himself and La Nina are all smiling upon me! Didn't expect this week! As Simpson would say "woohoo!"

Pictures next week, hopefully with exhaust smoke out from the tailpipe! Mexican Garage packed away, yard cleared off for the snow tunnels to the car. Rock and Roll!

Even my wife complimented me on my perserverance. That's rare coming from her. She holds back compliments like 4 carat diamonds! Jack Nicholson, Luis Miguel (mexican singer heart-throb), Marilyn Streep, Robert Redford, maybe Jack Benny, her family and now little old MOI!!!

To quote some anonymous actor "If its a rockin', don't come a knockin'!"

 

More License Names

ROKNROL

HANDJOB

ROLLJOB

KULROLL

RUV

ROLLED :confused:

SWFROLL

TOOTSIE

I can't do it for this year anyway, since the new plates start next year. We're changing from "Friendly Manitoba" to "Spirited Energy".

RUV might work.

 

HANDJOB AND ROLLJOB. Might get you some unexpected attention.

 

But, Butt, I'm not that kind of guy!

It would never work in Vancouver, BC or San Fransico, CA.

 

ROLLERD? Only allowed 7 letters.

I still kike RUV or ROLL-UV?

 

Good choices I think,so all you need is to pick the one you like best.

 

Yeah, one of those, me thinketh. The others would get me in a pickled state. :banana:

 

Yeah I agree it could get you in more than a pickled stated.

 

Gotta keep thinking out of the box or just on the box-flaps. Learned that in Engineering. Throw it all up on the wall and see which gob sticks! Then reel it back in to fit, Form and Function, Form and Function, Form and Fu**sion.:banghead3: :banghead3: :banghead3:

 

I took off all the plastic on the floor to start reassembling, so my camera friend took a picture.

 

Stormin' I picked up a Hot Rod Magazine Last night. Their paint&body edition.
They featured a article in their about Rolling on a paint job using a 62 Ford Falcon. Reading the article they took a lot of short cuts and didn't use primer first then rolled the painted the car and only used 6 coats of paint,instead of letting it cure like it should they took it to a local community college and baked it 2 times at 165 degrees. in the end they said it was only a good 4 foot paint job. It seemed to me they didn't follow the article at mopars.com
to the letter and rushed the paint job cause they only had 2 weeks to get the car done including the bodywork and paint.

IMO if they took the time like they should have it would come out a lot better.

 

Yeah, that's the July issue. I thought they didn't do it justice. They'd tick off all the exotic paint advertisers. Imagine all that $100/quart paint being replaced with $11.55/qt (CDN$)???

Anyway, the Mopar guys really proved it out and that's why I went with it. No guts, no glory, as they say. If the cold weather hadn't come so fast, I would have buffed more. I'll do it in the Spring.

 

It's really sad to see that they treated it so badly, There's a lot of people out here who can't afford a $3,000.00 and up paint job and a lot of DIY'ers like us who might have given this a go won't now cause of the way they portray the process. Now It makes me more determined to do this now as soon it warms up enough to do it properly.

 

I was hoping to learn something from that article, but the Mopar thread in those 8 documents had far more than these guys offered. About the only part that was informative was the updated/inflated cost since the guy did his in 2005.