Lowe's has paint measuring cups in the paint aisle, but I wouldn't recommend measuring using the graduations on the side of the cup. Some YouTubers were recommending acetone, which works, too, but it seemed to "flash" or dry out a little quicker than I liked. After watching more YouTube videos than any 47-year-old should watch in a lifetime, I opted to thin the paint with mineral spirits. I had some internal debates about whether I should thin the paint or not. Gloss Black is pretty much available everywhere, though, so I was in good shape. About the only limitation is that it only comes in limited colors, and that selection gets even more limited at Lowe's on a Sunday morning. It's relatively inexpensive, it will take a bullet, and it's avaialble at any hardware store in America. Rust-Oleum Oil-Based Protective Enamel is pretty awesome stuff. With the primer sanding out of the way, I was ready to roll on the color. The best advice I ever heard was "When you think you're done sanding, sand for another day." In retrospect, I should've done exactly that, but I got the surface pretty smooth with 600 grit paper. Getting that surface as smooth as humanly possible is what's going to result in a decent paint job. Then I blocksanded the truck for about the time it took the Egyptians to build the pyramids. I took my time and I could get two coats of primer on in a day in my garage. The nice part about priming was that I could see how the whole process was going to work with the finish coats later on.
I bought a roller cage and a whole bunch of four-inch foam rollers, and a ton of those foam paint brushes in various sizes to get into the nooks and crannies. I primed the entire truck with one coat of Rust-Oleum Rusty Metal Primer, and then a second coat of Rust-Oleum High Perfomance Primer. With that in mind, I headed off to Lowe's for supplies. And if it WAS worse, I could just sand it down and pay Earl Schieb to squirt it later on. So my thought was if I rolled five coats of Rust-Oleum on it, it certainly couldn't be any WORSE than how Chevy painted it when Jimmy Carter was still in office. Entire swaths of the inside of the doors, rocker panels and underside had never received any paint whatsoever. These trucks rusted the the moment that they came in contact with oxygen for two reasons: They were made of steel that had the quality of hardened cheese, and the only place they painted was the outside, and even then the primer was showing through in spots. Here's the deal with paint quality circa 1979, when some dope was spraying single-stage black on my Blazer: It was non-existent. I also spent a lot of time reading "The $50 Paint Job" at, in which he painted a Corvair using the same method. I had read a story a long time ago in Hot Rod magazine about painting a car with Rust-Oleum and a foam roller. So I decided to take matters into my own hands. I looked into getting it painted at one of the franchised "I'll paint that car for $99.95 joints," but I learned quickly that the price was a lot closer to $1,000, and that the $99.95 price was reserved for cars about the size of the Cozy Coupe my son was running around the front yard in. My hope was that I was going to have time to roll it into the school's fancy-pants Devilbiss downdraft spray booth, but I ran out of time before the 12-week class was over. To take care of the rust, I took a night class at Assabet Valley Vocational High School where I replaced a door, the inner and outer fenders, the rusty rocker panels and some minor rust in the rear quarters. It only has 60,000 miles on it, but it had suffered through 35 New England winters as a plow truck. It's a 1979 Chevrolet Blazer that I bought from a friend as a winter project a few years ago. I had heard of Rust-Oleum, and I was bound and determined to paint my car with it. It may have been a joke, but I took it as a personal challenge. What is an economical way to get it painted?"Ĭar Talk's answer: "Have you ever heard of Rust-Oleum, Karen?" "The paint is coming off and it looks horrible. A couple of years ago, a reader named Karen wrote in to Car Talk's newspaper column, asking if there was a solution to peeling paint on her Toyota, which had been suffering from a condition called "delamination," which is kind of like mange for cars.
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