Looking for an economical paint job

[Cash Money Hoes]

Ive got a mid 80's Chevy truck that will see most of its days hunting, ski tripping and mountain biking. Body is solid but has some surface rust that I want to stabilize and put a good '10'er coat of paint on it. I'm ok with someone who does work out of their garage if they do good prep work

I don't want to spend a bunch of money and am open to taking on the work of taking off trim, wet sanding etc.

Can anyone recommend some good guys that could do this work?

Thanks

[J-hop]

Don't know if sait still does this but you used to be able to get the students to paint your car in their auto body class.

I once had a car painted by students at fowler as well. Might be worth calling around to any school with a body shop.

[ercchry]

For those duties I'd probably just hit it with bed liner. Looks surprisingly good if you go with a coloured smooth texture one. Would stand up much better than paint to branches and rocks

[bourge73]

^^ I second that the rock guard from CDN tire would look fine
for that too and way cheaper than even a cheap paint job

[Joe-G]

Is it worth using POR15 on rockers with surface rust, then hitting it up with some rock guard from can tire?

[birdman86]

POR15 is pricey but works! I dumped it all over a bunch of rusty spots on my van and it's been holding up nice. Very shiny black though so I need to paint over it.

I've been looking into this too. Does anyone know if you can rent a paint booth for a month somewhere?

[ercchry]

A month?! That's a lot of booth time! I think u-wrench has a booth, but I would try an minimize your booth time as much as possible since it's probably like $40/hr at least

[Anomaly]

Originally posted by Joe-G
Is it worth using POR15 on rockers with surface rust, then hitting it up with some rock guard from can tire?

I'm going off memory, but I think you have a limited amount of time to apply clear coat or anything over POR15 and actually have it adhere well. Might have to look in to that!