when I bought my 56 f100 it was in that rusty primer.the body is in good shape,it just has a few little nicks and dings in it,nothing major.i don't have enough money to have the body work and have it painted.so I went to home depot and bought a gallon of rustoleum red ( I wanted it to be in the red family,like dark cherry or burgundy).I already had some rustoleum black,so I started mixing them together .I took a quart of red and 2 teaspoons of black,then I kept on adding 2 teaspoons of black until I got what I wanted.well 14 teaspoons off black to 1 quart of red is the ratio.my friend painted it for me.a lot of people like it,and they ask me what color is that and I tell them that it is " BOB'S SPECIAL"

 

Im not seeing a picture, I imagine it looks good though.

 

Bob - A lot of us are old critters and need a bigger picture than the one in the upper corner! Maybe you are an old fart too and just forgot to post it? It's hell getting old.

 

A little paint sure makes a big difference doesn't it. We do what we can afford, and looks good in your avatar,Rite on Bob.

 

I too went with a cheaper paint choice partially due to budget constraints and the fact I wanted to try my hand at painting the truck myself. I went the infamous John Deere Blitz Black and while my body work and paint are far from perfect, overall I am OK with my first attempt at doing both. What I know now makes me want to tear it apart and redo things so it is better which I might after enjoying driving it again for a year or so.

 

[QUOTE=oldwi;16980376]I too went with a cheaper paint choice partially due to budget constraints and the fact I wanted to try my hand at painting the truck myself. I went the infamous John Deere Blitz Black and while my body work and paint are far from perfect, overall I am OK with my first attempt at doing both. What I know now makes me want to tear it apart and redo things so it is better which I might after enjoying driving it again for a year or so.


Nice choice of wheel, and body color!

 

[QUOTE=yamagrant;16980730]Thank You!

 

How many coats, gal and how expensivewas that John Deere Black?

 

that picture in my avatar is when it was in primer. I have not been able to post pictures for a long time.i don't know what happened,but as soon as I get the pictures taken I will try again.if I still can not post pictures,i would like to know if I could e-mail the pictures to someone out there and have them post them for me. thank you

 

^^^I sent you my email, Bob.

 

In my opinion a cheaply paint job is better than no paint. I don't like the "patina" look,I know, other love them but this my opinion. One thing you have to realize even with a cheaply paint it's still probably better quality paint than the factory sprayed on it 60 years ago.

I've painted a car years ago with Rustoleum and have sprayed other things over the years with it and I don't like it. Seems to take too long to dry. I even add an oil paint hardener, which seems to speed the drying a little but not much. I like Valspar paint, which is the brand hardener I use, but for some reason my local supplier switched some time to all Rustoleum. I have used the store brand tractor restoration paint with good results. It comes with its own reducer and hardener and pretty cheap, a lot cheaper than automotive paint. Not as good quality but again, probably a lot better than the factory paint from 60 years ago.

 

When using rustoleum ,tremclad ,valspar and the other hardware store rust paints ,go to a commercial home paint store and pick up some "Japan hardener " ,its cheap and a few drops will really help the drying time of your paint .I pay about $7.00 for a jug of it in Canada .

 

Beats the alternative!

Later!
Mr. Ed

 

Bob email me a pic and I will post itfor you -- dave@sandscirculation.com

 

Moe,

Most of the truck got three pretty good coats on it...with some parts slightly more. I used John Deere primer as recommended on different posts on other forums about the blitz black paint. This website summarizes those posts and I basically followed those mixing guidelines. BlitzBlack - The real "HotRod Black."

I bought a gallon and two quarts by the time I was done and have some left over. I used the John Deere thinner and Valspar REN3001 activator/hardner that was sold by my local John Deere dealer. All total for materials including several cans of Blitz Black spray cans was around $150.00. One gallon of the paint was $34.89...and believe it or not a pint of the hardener to use was $44.79 so the hardner cost more than the paint.

I found the paint to be very easy to spray and for the most part went down great with no runs, etc. One mistake I made was wait until it was almost too late in the year temperature wise to paint since I only have a very cramped single car garage to work out of and had to paint the cab outside in my driveway. Since I was painting it late in the fall I ran out of warm enough days or I would have wetsanded it and shot one more coat as some areas did not turn out as smooth as I would have liked. Between that and the fact that as soon as I got color on it every little flaw in my body work immediately stood out is my reason for saying I might consider re-shooting it sometime later on. It was a great learning experience for me having never done anything like this before and is good enough I can enjoy driving it as it is right now.

Alan