Re: Paint Advice

Posted by HH56 On 2012/8/10 15:50:03

I'm also of the belief that it's your car to do with as you please and if you like what's there, so be it. On your present color, perhaps the car was painted at one of the "We'll paint any car any* color for $29.95" places and the jambs were a totally different color after it was over. The paint you have might have been one of the dozen or so "standard" colors (*the "any" part in the tagline was the standard offerings, anything different cost lots extra). Those places used to be all over advertising their weekly specials. Some even did a robust business.

Could be lots of reasons for the jambs but I can almost sympathize if the car did come back multicolored and paint job was done in the days before colors were available in custom filled spray cans. Maybe he didn't have an extra arm and leg to spend on a professional or a well stocked tool collection or talent to do it himself. A brush might be all that was available for the quart of matching color he could buy from the place that painted it.

It could have been worse. An aunt had a car done using one of those advertised "specials". They didn't take anything off or even open the doors. Unless you took something off before it hit the shop, if it was visible on the car's outside, it was fair game. Some bigger items might be halfassed covered but usually wound up painted in some form -- any small items like emblems & nameplates, forget it. Chrome strips -- there might be a shiny center with a paint stripe down each edge.

I remember when the car came back it was complete with painted weatherstrips where they were visible in the opening cracks, body color nameplates, assorted overspray, and one bumper had a half inch wide paint stripe wobbling down the top edge where the masking didn't cover. Hopefully your car didn't come back equipped with those extras -- or at least they are gone by now.

No idea how many storms the car weathered. For that price, most of those paint outfits used the cheapest quality crap you could find. Yours must have been at least a mid quality or well protected to last this long.