Forum gone a bit quiet...

[nacho man]

I would rather let the McCann's look after my daughter than paint a bonnet matt black.

[DodgeRover]

Can't beleive how divided this is.

Just paint it, you can always do it again if it looks a bit meh.

 

Saw a Matt black Morris Oxford earlier, looked good but I think it was original paint that had gone mega flat

 

Anyway badgers noses anybody?

[JeeExEll]

Can't beleive how divided this is.

Just paint it, you can always do it again if it looks a bit meh.

 

Saw a Matt black Morris Oxford earlier, looked good but I think it was original paint that had gone mega flat

 

Anyway badgers noses anybody?

 

Zephyr's fins anyone?? Get them wile they're fresh.

[richardthestag]

grease nipple tips! Get em while there hot their lovely

[JayW]

Oh heck....

Does anyone like my bonnet? If so shall I paint the car similarly?

Steel wheels in black also? Any chromed stuff on the car to be left as is....

No, it's horrible, you should sell it to me...

[Noel Tidybeard]

It reminds me of a Corgi whizzwheels car. That's a good thing.

 

crapi gt springs to mind

 

*edit* and the mgc gt

[purplebargeken]

Satin black says I don't give a feck about my car, it has shite paintwork and I've just spent £30 on paint in order to devalue it another £75 

 

^^ THIS is Autoshite in a sentence!!!

 

The satin black on the Olds looks bloody ace mate. Crack on!

 

I'd be tempted to paint the silvery bits too tbh.

[Eddie Honda]

Don't fucking paint it (unless you're going to do a full proper job). If it looks shite then just don't wash it. Job jobbed.

[Faker]

I'm not a fan of satin black if I'm honest... some cars suit it, some don't. I think a big yank tank is way too large to pull it off. Just my personal opinion.

 

Regarding the forum... I don't like change.. I like things that work, and work well. I don't really contribute a lot to this forum, but it's a place I visit as and when I want and need to. I hope it remains the place I've grown to have a great affiliation with, and the anonymous folk I've grown to call friends.

 

I don't know Daveb47, I've had no dealings with him. But I wish him well.

[DeeJay]

Go for it.

[michael1703]

I think satin black means, " don't give a shit about my car, please drive in to it"

[Vince70]

The best one I've seen done on the cheap was my dads mates Escort van which he painted in portaflek, it was a total disaster..

At the time he was working as a painter for an anti vandal paint company so thought he would roller his van in the stuff it even had the little flecks all over the thing and it ended up a poo brown Matt colour.

 

It got a bit much though when he decided to redo the bathroom and kitchen of his house in the stuff though so the place resembled a public toilet and even painted over the tiles etc with the stuff but I guess he never had to worry about graffiti.

 

But I had a few friends who have rattle canned complete cars before with good results but I imagine it must cost a small fortune in cans.

[cort1977]

Much better to be Matt black and on the road than not painted and languishing in a shed somewhere. The bonnet (hood surely?) looks all right.

 

Ocelot spleens.

[DodgeRover]

Better that it be used paint matt black and pineappled than being left unused then getting fragged or cubed.

 

Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar.

[puddlethumper]

Peoples Front of Judea? Splitters !

[JeeExEll]

If you go for all matt black it'll be hot as fuck inside in summer.

 

Stag's wings, they're delicious, two for the price of one.

 

But you have to haggle.

[sierraman]

Also shows surface scuffs really bad.

[Barry Cade]

Carry some chalk in the glovebox, so you can play noughts and crosses whilst waiting on the RAC

[Stanky]

I have a pack of cards in each car's glovebox for such an eventuality, so either patience if I'm on my tod, or strip poker if I'm not. Luckily (for passengers) the cards have not yet needed to be deployed.

[eddyramrod]

But I had a few friends who have rattle canned complete cars before with good results but I imagine it must cost a small fortune in cans.

My 1980 Buick had been rattled, in black too, of all the colours it could have been!  It actually looked bloody lovely.  Anybody's guess how many cans were used.

I'm saying it looked lovely... that was until rust began to break through on the C pillar and I had to fill it and paint it again.  I never managed to match the finish.

[Bobthebeard]

Can't beleive how divided this is.

Just paint it, you can always do it again if it looks a bit meh.

Saw a Matt black Morris Oxford earlier, looked good but I think it was original paint that had gone mega flat

Anyway badgers noses anybody?

Divided indeed!

However I am going ahead with it regardless. It won't be just a shit blow over with Poundland rattle cans though.... It is being done properly and with much preparation. The (very) few bits of chrome trim will remain chromed, as will the (new) grille. The one it came with was comprehensively broken and tatty. New one sourced from eBay USA. Much time and effort has gone into the car so far, and I am not just turd polishing, but aiming to create a decent, solid, reliable, well sorted and driving 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass.

It had been comprehensively run into the ground by time/neglect and previous owners with more than one wheel in the scrapyard when I got it. It deserves better and will live again. Tough old buggers I reckon.

The paintwork was terrible. Not patinated, just terrible. Faded and cracked metallic blue of many shades, a respray back to original being out of the question. Hence the black route...

The level of neglect the car has been subject to in the past was massive. Every consumable part was consumed, broken and ignored. Interior stank, carpets sodden with oil/water/transmission fluid, boot lock broken and stuck shut.... Transmission leaking fluid, broken rear spring and the list goes on really. A broken and neglected car.

Until now.

It has taken a load of time and money to get it where it is now. I am not just taking a decent car down the satin black route. It was a mess.

Part restored now, but well on the way to another life.

[tooSavvy]

Horse ..tick

Blind man ..tick

 

ATB m8

 

GoForIt

 

 

TS

[Bobthebeard]

Horse ..tick

Blind man ..tick

ATB m8

GoForItTS

Errrrr...

Eh?

[tooSavvy]

Don't get hung up about the paint job...

 

Nothing a *blind man on a galloping *horse would notice!

 

All The Best friend

 

 

Fuckking DOIT

 

 

TS

[D Spares & Tyres]

Jotun is what you need

 

£40 a gallon

 

No primer needed