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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 79 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 79 | Anybody doin' this?
I may have been in the heat too long. I had a thought today of doing my truck in flat black, with blue and white pinstripes. Maybe even some door art advertising my Dad's part time junkyard.
"Rocky Hill Auto Salvage" in white with blue trim.
Whaddayathink? Czechman, how about you, you doorart guy?
-Bluedawg
Bluedawg
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 2,393 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 2,393 | Haven't ever done that, but if your looking for opinions, I've seen good and bad. One local has one that is stone cold ugly, but I've seen some where it just makes any chrome pop and just looks clean. I think alot depends on the body work done or not.
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Drew
| | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 | You might check out the current issue of Ol' Skool Rodz and perhaps Rod and Custom. Both have recently had articles on doing a flat paint, as opposed to just leaving primer. Better protection for the metal than leaving the primer.
Bill Burmeister
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 79 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 79 | That's what got me to thinkin'. I painted the door with a dark primer, and then put on a new chrome door handle and gas cap. I started wondering how nice would a chrome grill look up front, surrounded by those acres of flat black fenders and hood...hmmmm.
Bluedawg
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| | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 | This is the paint they used. They've also done some good articles on how to lay out door art signage on old trucks.
Bill Burmeister
| | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 |
Bill Burmeister
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 | Whaddayathink? Czechman, how about you, you doorart guy?
-Bluedawg I'm only interested in finding and cataloging samples of the vintage door signage. I've seen good and bad new door art and always encourage people to do that THEY think looks good. It's your ride and it should reflect your personality. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 576 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 576 | well thats the direction i'm headed in anyway,always been a primer kinda guy way too many cool parts out there for ME to be wrappin up a small mint in paint. JD blitz black with hardner some pinstriping and i'm callin it done...........dave
1949 Chevrolet 3100 "When this thing hits 88 miles an hour, you're going to see some serious sh%t." -Doc Brown
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 207 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 207 | i read somewhere that you can mix primer and clear coat so there is more protection than just primer. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 180 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 180 | just use clear with a flatening agent. flat paint is ok but i am sick of the "rat rod" craze | | | | | Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 | Now THAT'S a cool ride... anything more polished is NOT a true rat rod... IMO, of course. If you're going to do it, do it right!
I saw one just like that pull into a car show towing a trailered $30k Harley and everybody gathered around the rat, nobody looked at the bike. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | most of what you see today are not true rat rods? just my opinion dont call my baby a rat rod.. just cause it has primer 
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,644 | Flat black does not a rat rod make.
Beautiful ride joker. | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 159 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 159 | ok...just my opinion. This is what I consider a ratrod. It also happens to be what I had to start with for my truck...nothing more. I find ratrods to be fenderless beatup looking vehicles. http://leahstockwell.com/truck/46chevy1.JPGNow I personally like flat black paint, whitewalls, baby moons, colored rims and less chrome. I also like to keep the truck looking primarily stock even though it may not be. So this is what I did to mine for the end result. Some people love it and others ask me if I plan on painting it to which I have to reply that it IS painted. http://leahstockwell.com/truck/truck%20001.jpghttp://leahstockwell.com/truck/truck%20002.jpg | | | | | Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 615 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 615 | Hey neighbor-Nice truck..Maybe too nice for a ratrod...IMO ..I see you have some goodies in it..I have a 55 and my hopes are my next truck will be a 41-46..and I'd love to have the drivetrain and suspension/steering upgrades you do.
Keith | | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2006 Posts: 8,351 | joker, zipper, those are not ratrods. Rather they would be considered Suede Rods. Very cool. Almost did that myself when I had the '55 in black primer.
Bill Burmeister
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 159 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 159 | I wasn't considering the end result a ratrod. I was considering the first pic where it was just a mess. I consider the end result a hotrod and was actually going for the old school hot rod look that I personally like.
I guess the problem with the ratrod term is it is now a generalized term for old school traditional rods...which drives the purists nuts by the way...do not use that term on the Hamb cuz you will get your butt hole torn wide open.
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 159 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 159 | Oh yeah...and thanks Keith. Find the truck you really want to do and then go for it. Be another against the grain guy and use a different drivetrain...my whole ford setup is sweet.
and again I will state it...I LOVE Joker's ride. He has a hit a sweet spot in my eyes with that car. | | |
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