There’s two different kinds of paintwork: rattle-canning something and properly spraying it. I’ve done enough rattlecan paint jobs to last a lifetime. Everything from the blackout treatments on my Chevelle and Mirada to the whole nose cone of the Imperial using a color-match spray paint, to entire cars (including a Chevy C-10 and Fox body Mercury Capri), I’ve spray-bombed. I like the rattle can. It’s treated me well. But it’s not the end-all, be-all of painting. It’s the quick way out. And if you’re serious about actually doing the job right, it’s time to actually break out the paint gun and get to work.
For a year and a half now, we’ve been watching the progress as Ronald Finger proceeds to restore a 1985 Pontiac Fiero 2M4 that started out positively awful. The body was growing lichen, the interior honestly looked either like the results of a fire in a plastics factory or one of the most rank cheeses known to man, and the mechanicals were beyond screwed. Since the day the car was unceremoniously bounced off of a car trailer on delivery, we’ve seen him go through every single little detail of the car with an almost OCD-level of care. The mechanicals are finished. The car runs, drives, stops. The suspensions have been rebuilt. Now, it’s aesthetics time, and in this video, it’s time to paint the outer black trim pieces. Surely, a spray-bomb treatment would’ve sufficed, right? Probably not, actually. Finger admits that this is his first go-around using a HVLP gun as an actual paint gun and you will see the learning curve needed to shoot the parts properly. Over, and over, and over again until the results are worth mentioning, he will take you through his process from fail to success.
hes says GD it a lot