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have you ever painted your truck with just a paint brush?

I havent but if it's going back to nature and all you can afford is a brush and a quart of rustoleum I recomment it.

A little hot rod story. A frind of a frind showed up at the la roadster show one year in a flat black roadster, in case you did not know you have to have gloss paint to enter the show, Sop they would not let him in. He went to the hardware store and bought a gallon of gloss yellow paint and proceeded to paint his cr with a brush

gmc--Did he win his class? :confused:

He won best artist.
I painted a VW bug with a brush once. I used regular car paint of the time and had them add some additives that would help with flowing etc. The results were actually very nice though I should have thinned it a bit more. It didn't flow perfect and some brush strokes remained. Some wet sanding would have smoothed it out, but I never did it.

I painted my frame with Zero rust and a brush.

I painted a 1946 chevy truck with a brush. I used farm implement paint. No prep, just wiped the dust off and went at it. Hint, dont do it in the hot sun. It will dry before you can get the brush strokes out. I wish I still had that old truck.

Well, I've finished painting my frame, axles, and springs with a paint brush and XO-Rust Red Metal primer and XO-Rust Satin Black. I'm planning on having the hardware store color match one of the original body colors in XO-Rust and paint all of ths sheet metal with a brush.

Youbetcha! Shelley once wore brushed on tractor paint, red. Thinned it down really thin and used the best paint brush we could find, helped the brush marks settle right out. Took about five coats because it was so thin. Kept a good wax on 'er and you couldn't even tell it was brushed on. Had to get up real close to tell.

Many years ago when I was a teenager my dad wanted me to paint our 52 international PU with a brush. It was a really nice rust-free California truck. At the time we lived in Maine so an older truck in that nice a shape was really a rarity. Anyway, He was too cheap/poor to pay for it to be properly sprayed so I went ahead and brushed it. It looked OK from 20 feet by up close it looked like crap. I tried my best to talk him out of it because at best I knew it wouldn't add any value and at worst it would detract from the value of the truck. I still kick myself for doing it.

I wish I could find one like it now.

One of my favorite trucks...the 45 2 ton is "rolled" and brushed. I love it. We even sprayed painted the inside dash and it turned out fine. We used rustoleum and a roller. Brushed around the windows and emblems. I even pretend chrombed the grill. Well, I painted grey so it didn't look to tacky. I have to say, no one ever said.... oh I see you brush painted it. I don't care if they did. Looks better than rust. 5 foot paint job

I gotta a Bugatti type 35 Gran Prix car painted with a brush
Does that count???

Tom68cst, just noticed a 1951 five window dodge halfton, new motor, new paint, tires,,$2650, located in the Dallas area,guess that would be a long drive for you though,,,,,Fred