Thread: Garage Painting for Dummies

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Thanks guys for all the info. I have oscillated on this home paint job for over a year now.
Strategy 1 has been to strip everything to bare metal myself, hit it with Mar hyde rust converter, then bondo and primer as I go. When one section or panel is done, I hit it with epoxy primer. Next the plan was to get some of the color I want to paint with and do the interior or a fender and see how it goes.

Strategy 2 - is to stop after getting everything in primer and take it to a Maaco, or Miracle Auto paint place and pay more to have them clean up the body and paint using my brand of paint.(a couple of hot rodders around here have gone this route and ended up with beautiful paint jobs for under 5k.

I really appreciate the warnings about Candy and HOK. Not set in stone on this one.I think I can still buy paint from Summit that is non h2o based as well.

Lastly - I'd still love to hear the process for sanding and painting to give it a try on a small panel. Thanks everybody, Steve.

I guess you failed the 8:00am test then