How to paint your car for $75.00 - No kidding!

I recently just finished painting my car myself, at home, in my driveway.
I used a foam brush and some Rustoleum from Home Depot... No, really.
Total cost of the project was $74.74 and it took about 10 days of my time.
The final result is amazing to say the least. Dont get me wrong, it is not perfect, but for $74.74 I would say it is a damn good job.
What do you think?












Here is a link to the complete write up on how I did it. There are a ton of pictures and lots more information in the write up.

Styluss Customs - Poor Man''s Paint Job

I know some of you may have seen the $50 Paint Job out there, this is different. Yes, it uses some of the same principles, but an entirely different technique to help eliminate the need for excessive sanding. Essentially, the only thing the $50 method and my method share is how the paint is mixed. What you see here is NOT sanded and NOT polished in any way. I simply let the paint dry, washed it and waxed it.

I figured some of you might want to throw a coat or 2 on your rides. It really is an easy, inexpensive way to bring some new life back to your car!!

Very impressive for $74 or even $740.  Good job

does it really work ? kinda hard to believe...

Does it really work?? YES!!! Did you not see the pics?
It is soooo easy to do too!!

I wanna see some daylight pictures of this.

Thats a pretty good job. I would still want a base/clear paint job if it was my own.

Look's great!

My instincts would lead me to believe that your not telling the truth. I mean it looks to good to be true. If you really did do that yourself, in your driveway, with some paint from a hardware store, pat yourself on the back.

aye caramba, cabron! muy bueno! neccecito burrito!

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ORIGINAL: fireman526

My instincts would lead me to believe that your not telling the truth. I mean it looks to good to be true. If you really did do that yourself, in your driveway, with some paint from a hardware store, pat yourself on the back.

 
I have been called a liar on numerous forums for this post.
I assure you that this was all me, by hand. Did you not look at the write up?
I have pictures taken through the entire process.

I'll back up Styluss on this one. He did it. Thats for sure. I've looked at his pictures both on the writeup and on Motortopia.  Its probably a good thing to do to an older car that really needs painting or else for someone to paint a car that they really can't justify dropping a $1000 or more on. Its very possible to do. My grandfather painted his farm truck in a similar way. Looks ok from a distance and in pictures, but up close it doesn't look like a base/clear job.

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ORIGINAL: Styluss

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ORIGINAL: fireman526

My instincts would lead me to believe that your not telling the truth. I mean it looks to good to be true. If you really did do that yourself, in your driveway, with some paint from a hardware store, pat yourself on the back.

I have been called a liar on numerous forums for this post.
I assure you that this was all me, by hand. Did you not look at the write up?
I have pictures taken through the entire process.

 
If you take a closer look at the post, I never called you a liar! I was carefull on how I worded it. And it does look to good to be true, but like I said before, if you really did do it, good job.

nice job.  makes me want to try it on my old monte carlo.  (which is worth more to me than what it is really worth.  lol)