Cheap Spray Paint

This is for all of us poor teenagers out there with very little money and very shioty cars. --------- Today I painted my 1988 S10. I was given this truck by my dad, at which time it didn't start. After I replaced the alternator, I had a running (woop) yet very, very, very, ugly ORANGE and WHITE pickup truck with huge scratches and rust. Well, today I went to my local k-mart, bout a thing of bondo (5.00 bucks), 14 cans of gloss black spray paint ( all together 14.00 bucks), and a set of imitation chrome colored hubcaps ( 13.00 bucks). As soon as I got home, I took a block of wood and a piece of sand paper and got to work roughing the surface paint (orange and white). I then sprayed and whiped the thing with a hose and a towel. Now I had my ideal surface. I then did some shotty bondo work on the rust holes. I now had roughed/porus base on which to spray my spray paint. I masked all the crap I didn't want painted (i.e. windows, tail lights) with newspaper and scotch tape. Then I starteded painting it with a thin coat of spray paint. When I was done with the first coat, I waited and hour and then went ahead and sprayed a second coat on. I then removed the masking and installed my hubcaps.-------------- Now here is the inspirational point I am trying to make to my fellow poor people: I went from the uglies piece of shiot (don;t forget the two tone colors), and with less than thirty bucks made it into ONE PIMP RIDE!!! Forget about Maaco or some expensive paint job if you have a piece of crap car that is embarrasing; if you use a simple color of spray paint like gloss black, you can make your vehicle look great. My car is now incredibly great looking in comparison to what it was, and I hope this inspires some other people with god awful vehicles to whip out the spray paint.

Well if it buffs and shines well enough it would be a good cheap fix, even if the paint did wear out i guess it wouldn't cost much to fix it.

Cool. I once fixed some rust holes on my old Volare` with spray painted duct tape. The repair lasted longer than the car. Car blew up in 1987, but the tape still looked good. :-)

Well, at least it was SPRAY paint and not Tremclad and a roller........