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paint your car with roller - and it looks freaky good!

 
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I saw this on reddit.  I thought it was going to be a joke.  But it looks really good!

paint your car





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awesome!
 
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My grandmother had a 1963 V6 GMC pickup truck.  After many years of sitting outside in Maine winters and summers, it started to look a bit shabby. 

So she painted it.

With a paint brush.

BLACK

The thing looked like a hole in the world.  I have no idea what kind of paint she used or what happened to it after 1985.  Sure was a thing to see.

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pretty cool I think I'll have to try that on my truck this summer
 
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I am going to try that on my truck...will post some before and after pics when I do.
 
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Somehow I get this feeling that if I take a paint roller to my car it's not gonna turn out that good.

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I knew a guy in California that painted his pickup truck with a roller and a sponge plus he used 5 or 6 different colors of paint.  When he buffed it out it was the weirdest paint job I have ever seen but it also was very cool.

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South Carolina wrote:
Somehow I get this feeling that if I take a paint roller to my car it's not gonna turn out that good.



even so it'll be better on the hood and roof than the peeling clear coat I've got
 
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There is a paint company called POR15 that makes paint that is self leveling.  I did not believe their statement but I purchased some anyway for a project I was working on and they weren't lying.  I put it on with a brush and when it was dried it looked like I used a spray gun.  It wasn't a car though. LOL

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I wish I would have seen this before I used the "roll & tip" method with exterior latex paint on my family's old boat.  Apparently the latex can't be wet-sanded smooth, where-as rustoleum can?

Oh well... it's not like it looks terrible.
 
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Mambo Dave wrote:
I wish I would have seen this before I used the "roll & tip" method with exterior latex paint on my family's old boat.  Apparently the latex can't be wet-sanded smooth, where-as rustoleum can?

Oh well... it's not like it looks terrible.

Yes......it is possible to wet sand and then buff out rustoleum.

"When there is no life in the soil it is just dirt."
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That actually looks way better then I would have expected. One of my contractors painted his car with flat black spray paint. We laughed at him until he took a screwdriver and put a nice big scratch on the hood, then he pulled a $2 can of paint out of his glove compartment and made the scratch disappear. His paint job always looks brand new and he only spends about $6 per year to keep it that way.
 
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A freind of mines father - back in the 70's - painted his 1950 Chevy pickup with brush. OrangeRed with green trim. We called it the Great Pumpkin.

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Students from a local university borrowed my car for the Houston art car parade. This was the result of their efforts, much to the embarrassment of my two teenaged daughters!
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