Quote Originally Posted by Dave Severson View Post
PPG has a super hard, good flowing, high gloss industrial coating that works great, too.....

For street cars, I've also been quite pleased with Ace Hardware's Rust preventitive paint, and acrylic enamel, mixed the same way NC mentioned in the post above.... It becomes very, very durable. Did the bottom of my '71 Ford Pick-em-up with it, the stuff is slow curing but when cured it is quite hard and excellent chip resistance.... (and cheap, the Ace paint is about $8.00 a quart)
Just as an afterthought; I tried a trick from an oldtimer down the road( a diesel mechanic who rebuiklds tractors and old farm trucks for fun) along Daves lines, I painted the floorpan of my VW using plain FlatBlack Rustoleum ,in the quart can, thinned as per the directions but with just a capful of hardener( I used generic enamel medium hardener) it dried about the same as usual, kinda slow, but the hardener gave it kind of an eggshll finish and was pretty hard! i dont know how it lasted since I sold the car right after, but mite be worth experimenting with since the paint can be had easily and cheaply!