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My wife and kids are going away and leaving me over the Christmas holidays (for a month) so I'm thinking of things to do.
In the shed I have a Leyland Mini S. I've retrimmed the interior with leather seats, lots of wood, a nice dash, new carpet and a pretty decent sound system. None of this cost much because I did it all myself (and imported the leather seats from Japan where the old Minis all have leather seats but you can't pay people to take an old Cooper S off your hands.) It has a 1275 engine and I've shaved the head, so it goes. In addition there are the obligatory 12x8" wheels (FAT... you read that correctly) and disc brakes... again I got them on the cheap.
Now I want to paint the thing on the cheap because I lack the $5000+ that it would cost to get it professionally painted. Over the x-mas holidays my plan is to paint it RWB (basically a deep shiny blue all over, red & white vinyl stripes on the front and a white roof... I'm thinking of how to incorporate a RWB Roosters logo into this, so any suggestions are welcome.)
The dirty part... I've been googling "cheap car paint jobs" and came across the $50 paint job:
http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/...0&fpart=1&vc=1
Basically you buy a special paint, mix it with a paint thinner, clean the car, sand it back... clean it then roll the paint on with a dense foam roller/foam brush for the tricky bits, wet/dry sand and repeat.
A mate at work did his kombi this way and it's a respectable looking job. Few questions:
1) Before I do this, any Roosters friendly painters who will do it for free? None? Thought it was worth asking anyway...
2) Anybody tried this method or another cheap painting method? (Bar the rattle can method.)
3) Any suggestions on the colour scheme? For the Roosters logo I'm thinking to use the traditional style Easts Rooster (get some vinyl made up.) Any suggestions on the logo/placement?
I know lotsa people hate minis, but hey... it's not your car, and I'm not selling it to you, so fark off if you're just gonna bash my wheels. Any constructive advice?
My wife and kids are going away and leaving me over the Christmas holidays (for a month) so I'm thinking of things to do.
In the shed I have a Leyland Mini S. I've retrimmed the interior with leather seats, lots of wood, a nice dash, new carpet and a pretty decent sound system. None of this cost much because I did it all myself (and imported the leather seats from Japan where the old Minis all have leather seats but you can't pay people to take an old Cooper S off your hands.) It has a 1275 engine and I've shaved the head, so it goes. In addition there are the obligatory 12x8" wheels (FAT... you read that correctly) and disc brakes... again I got them on the cheap.
Now I want to paint the thing on the cheap because I lack the $5000+ that it would cost to get it professionally painted. Over the x-mas holidays my plan is to paint it RWB (basically a deep shiny blue all over, red & white vinyl stripes on the front and a white roof... I'm thinking of how to incorporate a RWB Roosters logo into this, so any suggestions are welcome.)
The dirty part... I've been googling "cheap car paint jobs" and came across the $50 paint job:
http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/...0&fpart=1&vc=1
Basically you buy a special paint, mix it with a paint thinner, clean the car, sand it back... clean it then roll the paint on with a dense foam roller/foam brush for the tricky bits, wet/dry sand and repeat.
A mate at work did his kombi this way and it's a respectable looking job. Few questions:
1) Before I do this, any Roosters friendly painters who will do it for free? None? Thought it was worth asking anyway...
2) Anybody tried this method or another cheap painting method? (Bar the rattle can method.)
3) Any suggestions on the colour scheme? For the Roosters logo I'm thinking to use the traditional style Easts Rooster (get some vinyl made up.) Any suggestions on the logo/placement?
I know lotsa people hate minis, but hey... it's not your car, and I'm not selling it to you, so fark off if you're just gonna bash my wheels. Any constructive advice?
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