Paint Job
Paint Jobs are much less complicated than Off Frame Restorations. Depending on the condition of your vehicle paint jobs can be relatively simple, quick.
Painting over Current Paint Job
- If your vehicle and current paint job is in relatively good shape, prepping your vehicle for paint can be as simple as removing trim, mirrors and other external parts and then sanding the current paint job to a certain state to give the new paint a good surface to adhere to.
Strip down to the Metal
- If your vehicle requires body work chances are your paint isn’t in a salvageable state and it needs to be removed completely.
- In most cases your vehicle should be stripped down to the bare metal, this process more often than not reveals a lot of unexpected dents and flaws that will need to be repaired with body work and body fill.
Application of Primer
Once the vehicles flaws have been repaired it must be primed for the application of Paint.
- For the primer to properly adhere to areas of bare metal the metal must first be sanded with 120 grit sandpaper.
- Once the vehicle and it’s parts are ready they will be taken into the paint booth where the primer will be sprayed onto them.
- When the primer is dry it will be sanded down to prepare it for final paint or another coat of primer.
Final Paint
It’s finally time for the beauty pass.
- Areas of the vehicle such as the windshield, engine compartment and the undercarriage will be masked off to protect them from over spray.
- After the vehicle has been wiped down with tack cloth the first coat of paint will be applied.
- Once the final coat of paint has been applied the vehicle will be given it’s first coat of base clear.
- After the final coat of base clear has been applied the vehicle will rest until the paint is dry.
Final Assembly
Once the vehicles paint is dry and the masking is removed all is clear for the final assembly.
- Now parts such as mirrors, head lights, front grill, blinkers and trim, etc… can be re-installed.
