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[Lucky] On this episode of "Hot Rod Garage,"

[Alex] Both of these cars got professionally painted.

[main theme playing]

Welcome back to "Hot Rod Garage."

I'm Alex Taylor, and this is Lucky Costa.

Hello.

-Where are we? -We're in the cut.

Actually, we're cut adjacent.

OK, so there's one thing that least money, our '72 Nova,

and the Typhoon have in common.

I'm gonna go with the amazing appearance.

It's the fact that they both need paint.

They both do need paint.

In the pursuit of doing stuff right on this, we're actually

sending this one off to get paint work done professionally.

It's gonna be nice. It's gonna be pretty.

Sending it out to get it painted.

Nice.

But you remember professional race car driver?

I am.

We're gonna be professional painters.

Ooh, I checked my resume. I did not see that on there.

Ah, funny, because I wrote it on there this morning.

-Really? -Yeah.

-Pencil or pen? -Sharpie, actually.

-I guess it's permanent. -[Alex] Permanent marker.

So we're gonna try our hand at paint and body

on the Typhoon.

The whole idea here is to find out how much money we can save

by doing it ourselves and see if the effort that's involved

is worth the savings.

Maybe you have a car at home, you and your buddies wanna

get together one weekend and paint your car over

a long weekend.

We're gonna do that same thing and do the best paint job

that we can with the little bit of time that we have.

What she said, for sure.

No, I have such high hopes for this.

We're gonna actually do it proper with jambing the car,

meaning that we're gonna paint all the door jambs so

you don't open whatever color we go with and see black door

jambs and all that. -So it's a color change.

-We're doing a full color change. -OK.

[Alex] So in an attempt to do that correctly,

we've taken the car pretty much

all the way apart, minus a few pieces,

and then we're gonna sand it all,

then seal it with a sealing primer

for a nice base to work from.

Then we're gonna spread filler,

sand filler, and then once

it's all flat and smooth to our liking,

we're gonna spray it with a sanding primer,

and then sand some more

for an even smoother finish.

Once that's all done,

we're gonna seal it again,

then we're finally

going to get to lay the color down.

Even though we have a brand new shop, they were frowning on

the whole idea of us blowing it up with Bondo,

dirt and overspray. -By they, I meant us.

Yeah, us. We'd have to clean it.

-Yeah. -We're gonna be doing a lot

of it out here in the vacant parking lot.

I'm OK with it.

Now, don't come at us 'cause there's like a hundred

ways to get this job done and everybody's got

different opinions, but...

For every five tips we give you on how to

do it, we're gonna give you six tips on what not to do.

Maybe, maybe, but we're gonna give you reasons why

we're choosing to do the methods that we're choosing to do.

And then depending on how it looks at the end, we'll either

cut and buff or start assembling it.

So it's a four-day auto spa. Yeah.

All right, so we're gonna get started on this.

We have a lot of work ahead of us, and then later in the week,

this one is gonna get sent off, and it's gonna get a full

cosmetic treatment. -To other professionals.

[Alex] We're gonna compare the paint jobs,

take them on a cruise up to Bob's Big Boy

to show off our work, and we're gonna check out

the other paint jobs and what they might have cost.

Yes, please. Car keys and starch.

Yeah, you know what I was thinking?

It's kind of like us versus them.

Versus who? A legitimate paint

and body shop?

-Yeah. -Or us against Bob's Big Boy?

No, us against the paint and body shop.

'Cause that's me -- us versus a burger, me versus a burger.

I come out on top every time.

Well, then, I mean, just carry that attitude right on into

the paint job.

[Lucky] So we just got done unloading everything out

of the back of the Typhoon.

By everything, I mean, doors, glass, moldings,

trim, cladding.

This is all the side cladding for the car.

Rear pieces, as you can see, these are like the bumper

extensions that go on the side.

This is supposed to be three and a half feet longer.

We're sending stuff out to Sportmachines.

They have a procedure over there where they have a mold of

some sort that puts these things back together.

You put the original stuff in there, it fuses them back

together, makes them like new, makes them pliable, takes care

of stuff like this, which... Oh, um.

I'm interested to see that.

So if you have a project at home that you're considering

having painted, do yourself a favor, and I'll do the body

shop a favor too, take it apart,

take as much off as you can.

Take off the bumpers, take off all the molding that goes

around the doors, the rubber that goes

around the windows. It's not very difficult.

Take off the rear view mirrors, the lenses, all that stuff.

You take it apart, save yourself some money,

get a good job, they'll appreciate it.

You'll appreciate it.

[Alex] First thing on the list, we're going to sand all of

the panels to create a textured and clean surface for our first

coat of epoxy primer to bond to.

We're gonna start with an 80-grit sandpaper,

which means it's a little bit more coarse.

So the lower the number,

30, 40, 50, that's more of a grit and more sharpness than

the higher the number.

So we're gonna start with an 80, which will knock some of

the rough stuff down. I'm gonna start with a DA.

Some people think that Bondo has to go direct to metal.

So, Bondo is a DTM -- direct to metal.

That's what they call it, which that would be

a mechanical bond where the Bondo is actually going in

and gripping to like a, say, you ground it down

with 36 grit. It's got something to grab to.

There's also the school of thought that you put Bondo over

a epoxy primer or etching primer or something like

a paint as a base.

And that's the way that we're gonna do it.

So that's called a chemical bond.

We're not actually gonna primer it.

We're gonna use our paint here as kind of that base.

The Bondo is going to use the acid that's in it to melt

into, for lack of better terms, melt into the base that

we have here.

All right, we got a lot of the 80-grit pass done.

We have a lot more of this process, the same thing,

different grit. We won't bore you guys.

After this, we're going to be sealer, Bondo, primer.

-It's going to be a lot of fun. -So much fun.

[relaxed music playing]

Right. You know where we're going?

-I do. -We're in the South Bay.

-Yes. -And we're going to go get paint.

-Paint. -South Bay paint.

South Bay paint. Duh!

What a day!

You know, we're missing a couple more things

than paint.

While we are doing this in five days, we snuck in while

our camera crew didn't wanna sneak in last night.

-And we got ahead on some parts. -[Lucky] Exactly.

All the doors have been prepped on the outside,

and they're sealed. -[Alex] Yep.

[Lucky] The tailgate is sealed. Those are all flat panels.

There's not a lot of glory in any of those.

I got one word for the roof. Cowabunga.

-[Alex laughs] -Amazing waves up there

Unfortunately, this car has had some hands on it.

It's got, I don't know, how many different types

of paint, so sealer is gonna be important.

-Yeah. -And then primer.

High-build primer.

-Yep. -And then the fun part.

Yeah, so you'll notice a couple parts of the car have

already been sealer primered, but we have plenty of sealer

primer to shoot, and then Bondo,

and then sanding primer, and we're gonna do that,

like, a whole bunch. -All right, you ready to go?

-Yeah. -All right, let's go.

OK, we got the supplies. Now we get the fun.

All right, well, we made it back, huh, Alex?

We made it back.

[Lucky] If you're doing something like this at home,

one of the biggest parts is the prep.

[Alex] Not only with just sanding,

but also as far as masking, how you mask,

the quality of your materials, it's not all the same.

Masking allows you to only get paint

where you wanna get paint.

Or, like what we're doing right now, it's to keep sanding dust

out of the interior so that way we can minimize

cleanup work later.

I always thought spray and pray was bring out

the nitrous oxide, put in a big pill,

push the button, and pray.

Apparently, it's something else to body and paint people.

I'm sure I'll get it by the end of this episode.

Either way, what we've ended up doing

is doing a bunch of body work,

prepping the Typhoon, getting it ready for some paint.

Some of the fun part of doing that, and I'm using the term

fun loosely here, is running air hoses and making fittings

and making sure you're not spraying water with the paint.

There is a small problem of condensation.

If you have a compressor really close to where you're actually

using the gun, the air coming out of that tank as

it's getting pressurized creates a certain amount of heat.

There's condensation, there's moisture in it.

You need a way to filter that, all the debris and contaminants

out of it, and prevent it from spraying water, which I'm sure

you've seen if you used an air hose close to where you're

standing, where the compressor is, you're spraying the dirt

or something, you'll see moisture coming out.

There's a thing called a water trap and air dryer.

And that's exactly what we have here.

All compacted into one thing, including a regulator,

which is important.

We got this one for less than 200 bucks online.

I put a couple of fittings on either side so we can use

a conventional air hose into this side and then use

a shorter air hose, just plug it right into this.

But you don't want it laying down, you want it standing up.

So I might build a little stand for it.

I believe these hoses actually supposed to go to a sensor that

determines how much moisture is in there

and open them automatically.

I will be the sensor.

When I see the filter starting to get full, I will just drain

the water myself. However...

don't think we have the equipment here.

Fortunately enough, I do have some old air ride stuff.

I'm just gonna heat the end of it, close it off,

and this will be the valve.

I think it's good.

Let's put some air in there and see if it works.

OK.

The only thing, leaking is our hose.

Let me put that in a no-leak position.

[tool whirring]

[whirring slow then fast]

[whirring faster]

[whirring slows]

Scene.

[Alex] Now, when you're spraying paint, that paint is coming out

with air pressure behind it.

So make sure you get all those nooks and crannies

where dirt may be hiding, 'cause it will find its way

into your paint job.

So we're gonna blow it all off, and then we're gonna go

through and wipe it down with wax and grease remover.

So basically, it gets any oils from your fingers, oils that

may be on the car, just any residue that may be on there

that would affect the paint job.

It's gonna get that off.

If we were doing the final paint, we'd go through with

a tack cloth. We're not doing that right now.

We'll show you that at a later point.

And now we finally get to spray something -- an epoxy primer

that seals in all of the layers of old paint and body work

and creates a fresh uniform surface for all

of the upcoming work to build off of.

So for our epoxy primer here, we have -- Ew.

[Lucky] We have "Ew."

-So for our epoxy primer here -- -We have Ew.

-Did I do that right? -Yeah.

I'm learning now.

So this is Arkansas fiberglass training.

-Ew. -We have Ew.

Instructions say that we're going to go one-to-one mixing.

These cups are cool 'cause they're like speed mixing.

So it's like if one-to-one or like our other stuff is

one-to-four or four-to-one. -[Lucky] Four-to-one.

Four-to-one.

So you can do the different quantities here.

So we could go down here one.

And if you go to the other one, that would be one-to-one with

a smaller quantity. But we want a lot.

So we're gonna do five and five.

-We're going in deep. -You ready to make a mess?

Count me in.

-Can you see it? -Oh.

All right. And the mess has begun.

All right, now we're gonna mix the primer

and the activator up.

So then we put a strainer in to get any of the chunks out.

[Lucky] That should go to just over five.

That's all of it.

[Alex] So we have acetone slash paint thinner.

Lucky's gonna run it through the gun,

get a spray pattern figured out.

Also, that way it's not just shooting...

[Lucky] Yeah, yeah, it's a new gun.

It might have some cardboard in it.

The patterns are clean and crisp.

If you tighten the pattern all the way down, you know

it's a nice little bullet.

Then you can adjust the amount of material versus air.

Turn the air pressure up.

You were able to blend between material and air.

Turn it down and then open the fan up.

Able to shoot a lot of material or no material at all.

So I think it's gonna work good.

♪♪

♪♪

-So today was a day. -We did a thing today.

Basically, where we have it right now is we've got an epoxy

primer on this, two coats. -Correct, at least two coats.

-Yeah. -Three coats in some spots.

We're gonna let it dry overnight, and we'll be back

bright and early, hoping that we have everything we need.

-Ready? -Yeah.

High five!

[Alex] Our goal today is to complete

the body filler step of the process.

This is a really important step because getting the body panel

straight and smooth will not only make the sanding primer

step tomorrow much easier, but it will also make

the overall results way better.

So, what I'm getting ready to do this morning

is just hit it with a long board.

So, this is a nice flat surface, so you can see highs

and lows as you go over it. I've sprayed a guide coat.

I've just -- black paint on it.

And I'm just gonna use that so that way I can see where

the highs and lows are. -Yeah, the grays.

OK, but the black didn't dry all the way.

[Alex] Unfortunately, we had some bad chemical reactions

to what we sprayed last night.

The epoxy primer just did not harden properly on some spots

on the doors, and that forced us to strip the doors back down

and re-spray them today.

So, we still have one door that needs to be hung and sprayed,

but we're kind of a little bit out of room, so we're a little

behind schedule on these pieces.

We'll have to wait to do body filler on these in the morning,

but our body over there is ready to start the body work process.

So, one of the things about painting is you're basically

juggling a whole lot of moving parts

at different stages at one time.

So, you just gotta be able to maximize your time the best

you can for the situations that present themselves.

But we have officially entered the next phase of our project,

sanding the epoxy primer, which will get it ready for

whatever needs to stick to it, either Bondo or sanding primer,

or in our case, both.

OK, so I've used the DA and some 180 to buzz off

sort of the surface of all the sealer that we put on the car.

We weren't really concerned about the texture that we were

shooting, knowing that we're gonna be knocking it down.

After this, there'll be body work, and then we're gonna put

the high-build primer on it.

So, some things are fun, and then some things are this.

So, right here, when we started sanding, I was able to actually

pull sheets of our epoxy primer off.

You can see under it, the layer below it had

gummed up, and it was nasty, and it was not gonna stick.

So, long story short, went ahead

and took this down to bare metal.

So, I'm gonna get this nice and sanded down with a good

80 grit, get it as close as I can get it, get all the nasty

gunk off, for the most part it is, and we're gonna

modify, adapt, and overcome our situation.

So, we have our body filler right here, and then we have

our hardener in this tube.

Kinda like seasoning in the kitchen, you know?

But for real, the more you put, the faster it kicks.

By kick, I mean harden.

At some point, Bondo gets to the point that you can't work

with it. So, I'm gonna start here.

So, basically what you're doing is you're taking your hardener

and you're kneading it into your Bondo.

Bondo's done in layers, and you wanna try to catch it

to sand it while it's still somewhat soft, for lack of

a better term, or else you're gonna have a lot harder time...

sanding it.

So, you wanna get it smooth, but you don't wanna wipe all

of it off that you're putting on.

So, basically the way it works...

is you're getting your low spots,

but you feather it out as you go,

needing less as you move out.

♪♪

So we grabbed the door that was hanging over there.

We haven't sealed this one yet, so it's kinda OK.

This is lined up right here, and you can see the whole

bottom right here is not quite lined up where it needs to be.

So what we're doing is using the door as a guide

for the spreader.

Are you a baker in your free time?

[Alex laughs]

[Lucky] This looks like a fondant.

♪♪

[Lucky] The line looks good.

Now we're going to "filet," is that the right word?

Filet the door free and then seal the door, hang it up.

I'm just thinking about the fact you've said

"filet" and "fondant" in a matter of 20 minutes.

[Lucky] Fondant, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hey, I'm internationally known.

[Alex] Holy shmoly.

We actually feel pretty good about where we're at,

even though we ran into some bumps along the way.

We have the body itself ready for sanding primer,

and then this is ready for us in the morning.

So, what we'll be doing is we'll be bouncing

back and forth.

We'll do sanding primer on the body, body work over here,

back and forth, back and forth, and by the end of the day

tomorrow, we'll have both of these components,

all of the groups in sanding primer,

fresh, ready to go with a sealer primer on it.

That way, the next day we can come in and get color on this.

So, we're making progress slowly but surely.

-[Alex] Hi. -Good day.

-How are we doing? -[Alex] How are you?

Mark, how are you doing?

-Alex, nice to meet you. -Lucky, nice to meet you.

-My pleasure. -You got a nice ride here.

Thank you very much. It's a lot of fun.

[Lucky] This is your parts chaser?

Yep. Yep, yep.

I can fit quite a bit back in there.

[Lucky] Those parts are pretty quick, huh?

-Yep. -[Lucky] All right.

I think you should see what we're working with, maybe.

Are you actually here for the Nova?

Are you sure you got the right address?

-I believe I am. -All right.

All right -- Let's take a look and see what we can do.

-[Alex] So this is our '72 Nova. -[Mark] I'm sure I can help.

Tell me your wants and most importantly, budget,

you know, because it's all about what you get for budget.

This is where you laugh at us.

I think our budget is in the eight grand area.

-Yeah. -But that's not just prep

and masking, that would need to

include paint and clear. -OK.

OK, you're asking a lot. But anything's possible.

OK.

So, color, are you guys thinking the same color,

are you thinking of changing color?

I think this is the original blue, right?

I don't think it's -- I don't know if it's original,

but I really am fond of this blue.

[Mark] So let's walk around the car and take a look.

-OK. -And see what we're looking at,

because there's things that you can see

and things that you can't see.

Areas like this, I mean, this is easy stuff.

This is just clear coat going bad.

So that's where, when budget comes in, how far do we strip

certain things?

Like continuing to walk around the car, you know,

there's a couple of other areas that are gonna jump out,

which is typical for older cars like this.

Not changing the color up too much.

And we disassemble everything.

What do you think?

I think, judging by what I'm seeing here, if you guys are

gonna do all that, I could probably turn this around in

a couple of weeks. -Couple of weeks?

-That's nice. -That's impressive.

A lot of times, a lot of shops are not going to be as on top

of it as Jack's here and gets you in in a couple weeks.

You did the Grand National.

You guys did a great job in a short period of time.

-So I have full trust... -Well, thank you.

...that you're going to make it happen.

We will.

All right, well, thanks so much, Mark,

for coming to visit. -[Mark] My pleasure.

-Yeah, thank you. -Good to see you.

-I appreciate you coming out. -OK.

-Sorry. -No worries.

I'll just say that now.

It'll look a whole lot of different when we get back.

-[Lucky] Cool, perfect. -We appreciate that.

Well, you go have fun in your car.

We're gonna go have fun... painting.

-I can see that. -Yeah.

[Alex] All right, so I'm done with Bondo on the body.

Really happy with how it's looking.

Got the nice body line, door jamb.

Everything's starting to look good again on this side.

So I'm gonna go ahead and blow all of this dust off.

Also, even though this is a base and you're gonna be

like, "Oh, I'm putting sanding primer over the top of it,"

the smoother you can get this finish, the less likely

you run the risk of having those sanding marks come through

at a later point in time.

We are at the point of doing our urethane primer, which is

what we keep referring to as a sanding primer

or a high-build primer.

So, when we say "high build," very self-explanatory.

You're gonna put a couple layers on, and it's going to

build in thickness.

That way, you have some material to take off

and get flat.

This one is a little bit different mixing ratio

than our epoxy primer.

This is a four-to-one, so we put four parts of primer

to one part activator, hardener, whatever you wanna call it.

♪♪

[sprayer hissing]

I would say that was fun.

And under different circumstances, probably

would be. So let's have a quick lesson.

One, if your paint looks chalky and dry before you even get it

in your cup, stop.

So we are using a little bit more...

budget-friendly...

interpret that how you'd like, paint for our vehicle here.

I had about that much reducer and I need like

that much reducer.

And so, anyways, I took reducer, which basically is

just thinning down your paint. You could use acetone.

You could use lacquer thinner.

But reducer is basically usually based

on different temperatures.

So the hotter it is, the longer you need to spray

your paint, so you get a higher-temperature reducer.

I don't know what mine was.

It literally just says "reducer" on it.

So I put reducer in it, got the primer thinned down.

I'm gonna go clean this up. It's a mess.

Let that dry for a little bit.

Get ready to sand, get ready to prime, get ready to sand,

get ready to prime, get ready to sand, get ready to prime.

[chill music playing]

Man, this is fun. Whose idea was this?

It is kinda fun. You're having fun, right?

-What? -Yeah.

Oh, yeah, I'm having a "ba-last."

Well, we'll be here for quite a while.

Or at least I will.

Yeah, every time I get something done, thinking,

"Oh, OK, we're good," she comes behind me.

Psst, psst, psst.

That's great. Do it again.

Wait, here, take that.

All right, with that said, now we're going in with 320 to

get the surface even smoother, that way our next step,

the color, is going to be nice and smooth.

Couple spots where I've sanded through, I'll do another coat

of sanding primer, get it nice and smooth one more time,

and then it's time for color! -Alex.

-Yeah. -High spots and low spots?

Yeah.

This is the low spot of this episode.

[Alex] So we have a couple colors to test here.

We've tried to pick colors that have a little bit

of depth to 'em.

We don't want a metallic or a dark, dark color.

Yeah, cool thing about the spray can is they actually

mix the paint.

It's not just off-the-shelf rattle can paint.

Mix it, they put it in the can, and then they pressurize it so

that we can actually do a fan pattern and very much

like mixing it yourself.

[Alex] And we wanna go single-stage paint,

meaning we don't have to put a clear coat

on this when it's all said and done.

And you'll see what we're gonna spray it on when we get there,

but that way you can see what the color looks like on

the, like, different lines. -Right, right.

And, yeah. So with that said, let's go.

-Ready? -Yeah.

Just throw that in your frunk.

We're gonna shake that paint as we drive back.

[Alex laughs]

So we went through a large swatch of virtual plethora of

paint possibilities, right?

Are you just trying to use big words?

Yeah. Like dunkelgrün and hellgrün.

We looked at some dunkelblaus, some hellblaus.

[with foreign accent] Some orange,

which is pronounced exactly the same in any language.

Some gelb.

I think I like this blue better than that blue, though.

I do, too. This is hellblau.

Hold on. Maybe you should go upwind.

I don't know a lot about painting, but I know you're

supposed to be upwind.

'Cause when the police get there, they're like, "Hey...

who painted the blue?"

♪♪

[Lucky] Um, what do you got there?

[Alex] I got green.

I got [with foreign accent] "orange."

-I knew it. -[Lucky] Just fun to say.

♪♪

[Alex] And now, all we have to do is this side.

[Lucky] A super important part of painting a car is dust control.

Working outside, you can expect to get some dirt in your paint.

There are a couple of options to help manage the dust.

One of them would be renting a paint booth.

Shopped around, and I saw that there was 125 bucks for

three hours. It seemed super reasonable.

The other option would be buy one of those inexpensive,

inflatable paint booths off the internet.

They look like they're gonna manage the air.

There's filtration.

The one thing we've not talked about yet is overspray.

So it's gonna keep the overspray and the whole shop down.

Those were only a thousand bucks.

We got one of those because we're going to paint

more cars in the future.

If you're only gonna paint one car, maybe you're looking

to rent that local paint booth.

OK, we may have overdone it a little.

OK, body work is done, as done as it's gonna be.

I think that's like, we're at, I don't know, probably 20 hours

of sanding and Bondo time.

So when I say four days, or when we say four days,

it's four full, legit days.

So now it's time to get ready to unmask this, and we're going

to head inside, prep it, all that good stuff,

and probably re-mask it.

[Lucky] Hey, can you guys settle down out there?

-Huh? -[Lucky] Settle down.

I'm trying to rest here.

Are you kidding me?

This is a private residence. You're trespassing.

[upbeat music playing]

[sprayer hissing]

[Alex] That's actually pretty nice. What do you think?

So 13 feet, this is where the back

of the car is right here.

OK, and that's with it all the way nosed up?

-[Lucky] Right. -[Alex] The purpose of

this paint booth and why we're not just

doing it out there is one, because we don't wanna get

paint everywhere outside, but two...

Previous episodes of "Hot Rod Garage,"

we learned this lesson. -[Alex laughs]

Two -- we wanna have a nice controlled environment here

where the stuff out there is not getting in here.

So that's why we've dusted the stuff off coming into this.

We wanna keep this nice and sanitary.

[Lucky] Yeah, sterile, as sterile as possible.

[Alex] Yeah.

♪♪

All right, so now that we have everything in here,

we did a wipe down on the outside with the dust.

Now that we're finally starting to be ready to button up

the booth, doing a final wax and grease.

I'm wearing gloves because if your fingerprint oils get on

here, it could show up in the paint.

There's still some low spots that I don't like,

but it's pretty flat.

So on these spots where you see different color,

the color isn't so much the big issue that you're gonna have

when you get to your paint, where you're gonna see

splotching, but the different textures is what can get you.

So metal, different kind of paint, primer, all of that.

So it's really important.

The next step we're gonna do after this, well, we're gonna

tack with a tack cloth after this, but after that,

when we actually go to spray, the sealer that we're going to

do is gonna help even that out.

So what I'm gonna do first is take a sealer

and go over the spots,

spot spray those different areas, and then do one more

final pass of sealer.

So that way, it'll kind of lock everything in,

smooth those textures out.

A million different ways to do it, but that's how we're doing

it, and hopefully that helps you.

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Going in.

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[Alex] All right. It's go time.

I'd be lying if I didn't say I was nervous.

I am nervous because it's like the make-or-break.

And I already know I'm gonna be too hard on myself.

So I'm trying to go easy on myself.

So the first coat is important 'cause it's forming a tack coat.

So that means that you wanna go with a medium coat.

So not too light, but not too thick.

'Cause the first coat is gonna be

the most susceptible to runs.

And then after that, you can do a thicker coat 'cause it's not

going to run as easy.

So, I'm new to this.

I know what I need to do. It's just the actual technique.

I'm gonna suit up, go in, and start out in the door jambs

to try to get a feel for the gun and how the paint's

gonna lay down.

And the last week of work comes down to the next three hours.

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[Alex] All right, so first coat is on, and I'm actually

really happy about it.

The paint is laying down really well, and the bodywork isn't

actually that bad.

So, of course, there's always more that you can do,

but what you see behind us isn't TV magic.

We legitimately have done this in five days.

I've had many late nights of those five days,

very little sleep this week.

So it's been long days, but it's doable.

Where we're gonna leave this off is you guys can --

you guys can go home.

By home, I mean stay on your couch or wherever you're

watching this for a couple more seconds.

I'm going to be in here for a couple hours.

You don't have to watch all this paint.

It's gonna be more spray, spray, spray, cloud,

green, spray, spray, spray, mixed paint, green.

It's not gonna really change looks for you guys until later

once we get the cladding on.

With that said, I'm going to go back in,

get another coat of paint.

Most likely, I'm gonna end up laying three coats.

That way, we have a nice, thick paint.

And we will see you guys in a second.

[rock music playing]

[Alex] So, it's been a few weeks since you've seen our Typhoon sitting

in the paint booth after we finished spraying it

and unmasking it.

We got the cladding back, got it painted, and then got

the Typhoon reassembled.

We even got some fresh gold wheels to go with our green

paint, and I have to say, it's looking really good.

Turns out, the ventilation in our blow up booth just did not

cut it when we came to spraying a really heavy coat of paint.

So, unfortunately, there's a light coat of

overspray on part of the panels, making some of it

look a little bit flat.

While this will all cut and buff at a later point in

time, and it's going to shine up really nice, this really

truly is the result of five days of paint and bodywork.

And I have to say, pretty impressed with it.

Now, we're headed off to Jack's to pick up the Nova,

and then we're going to head over to Bob's Big Boy,

put both of our paint jobs on display, and then see if we can

find any other home-sprayed paint jobs there.

So, interestingly enough, we have a fuel pump that has

got some kind of problem.

There's a ghost in the machine.

At idle, it's not got a lot of fuel pressure.

It's only got, like, 25. It should have about 45 to 50.

-So let's just keep driving. -[Alex] It's just at idle.

Right.

It drives good when it's driving.

It's the whole, like, getting to that part that's

the hard part. -Yeah.

-I think we made it. -We actually made it.

I don't know if we'll leave here, but we made it here.

If I was toast, I would be done right now.

-That was a long drive. -It was.

It was very scenic, very fun.

I see something, though, that looks a little bit better

and potentially running a little better.

[rock music playing]

-[Alex] Look at this thing. -Look at this thing, buddy.

OK, hang on. Do you remember?

-This was red. -[Lucky] This was a red hood.

[Alex] This is pretty heavy on some sparkles.

[Lucky] Yeah, this is a GM, like, metallic.

[Alex] Yeah. If you get up real close,

you can see it. It looks really good.

So we took ours completely apart.

-Yeah. -And it looks good.

-Yeah. -Don't get me wrong.

-It looks great. -Yeah.

It doesn't look like this. And we just threw him the keys.

Yeah, I agree. I am going to probably sound

partial, but I am very partial.

I actually am very, very, very proud of our Typhoon paint

job, because the spray looked freaking so good at 2 AM

After that, I started spraying real heavy coats.

There was so much overspray that just there was no

ventilation in the booth. It ended up falling back on it.

And so there's some spots that are a little rougher

than we'd like.

So I'm not a fan of that paint booth.

And I honestly feel that if we had time,

I actually feel confident.

I don't care about what anyone else says.

I feel confident in my skills that I could've done a killer

paint job with the bodywork that we did.

Oh, no, the bodywork looks great.

[Alex] Yeah -- But the spray doesn't look that bad.

[Lucky] No, the spray looks great too.

It's just the overspray that's all over it.

It's not you. It's on the paint booth.

[Alex] Thanks. But this is definitely...

Note to self, you can't paint a car in a bouncy house.

This definitely, though, looks really good.

It's a lot more complicated paint than what we did.

[Lucky] And it's also done, like, in a professional facility.

-This is what they do. -[Alex] Yeah, it looks good.

So, yeah, I know how you feel about it.

-You know how I feel about it. -Yeah.

Let's see how Mark feels about it.

-How we doing? -[Alex] Pretty good.

-What do you think about it? -I like it a lot.

I think it's come a long way.

It was a piece of cake too, right?

-Oh, yeah, real easy. -[Lucky] Ha-ha!

What did you think once you got it here and actually

got to take some pieces apart and look at it?

You know, as always, it was more work than we thought.

-Surprise. -They always are.

Yeah.

[Mark] But you guys stepped up and put a bunch of brand new

trim on it, which really helps. I like the color.

I think we came real close to what the color was.

[Alex] Oh, it looks great.

The color is one of those seven layers of blue

that it was, and this is the one that I liked.

-You somehow read our mind. -Is this like a Marina Blue?

It's close to Marina Blue. It's actually a special mix.

-And this is two-stage, right? -Yeah, base gold, clear blue.

So how long did you have in this from the time it showed up

to the time we're taking it? -Three weeks, probably.

Do you feel -- were you guys consistently on it

for that time? -Nope.

You can't be. You have to get on and off it.

You gotta give it time to cure once you sand it down

and prime the stuff. We didn't strip it.

We stripped areas on it, and then we primed that.

[Alex] I am happy with it.

[Mark] Yeah, I'm glad you guys like it.

I like it a lot.

I was happy to take care of it for you.

Thank you for getting it done, though, in a short period

of time. You guys did a killer job.

[Lucky] Thank you very much, sir.

[Mark] Happy to take care of it for you.

Off to Bob's?

[Alex] We're gonna try to get to Bob's.

I'll follow you in case you break down.

[upbeat music playing]

[Lucky] Back in the day, Bob's Big Boy was the spot.

We went to all the Bob's Big Boy.

It's a total like an in-and-out gig.

You know, it's a car-culture deal.

This is cool, 'cause every single Friday from 5 to 9,

this is a car gig right here.

And it just so happens that we picked up our Nova on

a Friday from Jack's, which is very close by.

And we thought, why don't we pop by, check out the car

show, do a walk around, check out other people's paint

jobs, then chocolate cake, burgers.

Cake, uh... cake. Yep.

You wanna do a walk?

-You said "cake." -[Alex] No, no, no.

-Walk, then cake. -OK.

-Yeah. -Lucky walk.

-Walk towards cake. -Let's go.

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-[Lucky] GT-500. -[Alex] That's not too shabby.

-Lots of nice paint jobs. -[Lucky] This is a 1964 CJ-5.

Kinda looks like our paint.

It does kind of look like our paint.

A little bit.

-Did you see that big truck? -[Alex] I did.

That would be a great shop truck.

We have one of those in the shop.

-What? -A Mr. Squishy.

-A Mr. Squishy? -Yeah.

Butternut yellow. '66.

-[Alex] Lots of stuff. -[Lucky] Cool Chevrolet.

Not too shabby. Oh, it's actually purple.

-It looks black. -Jaguar.

-That's yours? -You have to say it like that.

-[with foreign accent] Jaguar? -23-window microbus.

-I like it. -That is very cool.

[Alex] I do. That's nice.

[Lucky] Yeah. Nice.

-That's for sale. -That's cool.

-Yeah. -Sweet '56 or '55 Ford.

-'56 says it right there. -Yeah.

-Oh, it does. -Did you see?

Did you see that green Typhoon over there?

[Alex] Did you see that blue?

I've never seen a green Typhoon before.

Did you see the blue Nova? You wanna go check it out?

-[Lucky] That's amazing. -We should go check it out.

♪♪

[Alex] What do you think about this truck?

-Oh, I love a C-10. -Trucks are your thing.

-Yeah, '71, '72. -That's a nice black paint job.

Did you paint your car, or did somebody else paint it?

I painted it.

[Alex] So how long do you have in your restoration here?

[truck owner] 22 months.

[Alex] How much do you have in it, do you think?

Probably three.

Is that accounting for what you would think of

as your labor, or is that materials only?

-Materials only. -[Alex] So that's interesting.

I have to also ask, what year did you paint this?

-2009. -Wait, what year were you born?

-'97. -Oh.

Killing me.

[Alex] Maybe a sensitive subject, but how much do you think

you have in paint and body work?

Oh, yeah, this is good, 'cause you sent it to a legit

shop that does high-end work, yeah.

Close to 20.

[Lucky] Plus, this is a super expensive color.

-Absolutely. -[Lucky] Yeah, yeah.

[Alex] Would you say on yours, is it the typical rule of a 50%

material cost, 50% labor? How would you split that?

It used to be like $3,500 just for the material for the paint.

-Now it's close to $6,000. -Yeah.

And that's on a good day, I feel like.

That's on a good day. That's on a good day.

So that kinda changes on an ongoing basis.

[Alex] Overall, it was a really good time.

I think we learned a lot.

I have personally grown up in the paint, the, like,

show-car world. My dad does -- -That's your thing, yeah.

Yeah, my dad, like, grew up watching paint and everything,

and I think based on walking around this car show,

you can hear a very wide range of prices.

There was stuff from super high-end to I did it myself.

Let's talk about the cost of ours.

This over here, which we had no labor costs, 'cause we were

doing it ourself, we did have to buy all the supplies,

all the materials, all the tools,

'cause we didn't have that. -And a paint booth.

And a paint booth, which was $1,000 on its own.

We were into it about $6,000 total.

Parts, materials, and equipment and everything?

Yeah. Now, keep in mind, that's lower

on the materials list on some,

a little mid-range on the actual color paint.

We did get a little love from South Bay Paint just because

we deal with them often. -Yeah.

And we also got pretty good tools to work with.

So keep that in mind. Over here, though.

-Did you just call me a tool? -I did not.

-All right. -But you thought it.

-OK. -And if the shoe fits...

-That's all I gotta say. -OK.

[Alex] All right, the Nova at Jack's, because they're our friend over

there, was right at $9,000.

Now, keep in mind, this car was not stripped all the way down.

There was still a lot of work done to it.

So we just say that to say you could have anywhere from

a couple thousand dollars to $20,000, $30,000, $40,000.

Both of these are very reasonable for

the results we got.

I've seen some crazy expensive paint jobs.

I mean, you get over $100,000.

But we won't go there, 'cause that hurts.

So if you're going to look at doing a paint job,

there's a couple of things to consider.

A -- don't be scared. Just do it.

Do you have any artistic skills, patience,

or potential ability to do a good job?

I'd like to take those dollar savings and put in the work any

day of the week.

I personally enjoy doing paint and body.

I do not.

We have very different experiences with both.

-Yes. -But we have two painted cars,

and two that look a whole lot

better than they did when we started this episode.

That is very true.

And I am driving the coolest one, in my opinion.

We have a lot of people to thank.

Sportmachine, absolutely. That's the car I'm driving.

Yes, it is.

Shout out to Sportmachine.

[Alex] They repaired all of the side cladding.

[Lucky] And they're the only people, it's the only game in town.

-They look amazing. -[Alex] Yeah.

Your boys at Paint.

South Bay Paint in beautiful Gardena, California.

Thanks to those guys, they were able to provide us

with all the stuff to do our own paint job.

Like literally, we walked in, "We don't know what we're doing.

What do we need?"

And they threw a bunch of stuff at us.

We traded them straight across for money.

It worked out great.

Third thing on the list over here on your car while we're

still talking about it, Mickey Thompson.

It did drive very nice on the way here.

Yeah, so since we got new wheels,

we had to get new tires.

Mickey Thompson always keeps us hooked up.

-I see what you did there. -Yeah.

All right, coming over to the Nova, big one,

obviously, this whole bright blue thing going on, Jack's.

Thank you guys for not only the time that you got this done

in and the quality and just being a phone call away.

A lot of stuff going on.

Mark over at Jack's did an amazing job.

And one final thank you. Thank you to Gearstar.

We didn't put that transmission in on this episode,

but every time I get in it, I immediately think,

"Oh, cool shifter. Gearstar."

Love you guys. Appreciate it.

I got Gearstar on this one too.

-You do? -Absolutely.

Yeah. Good point.

I think there's a couple more cars to look at, some more

chocolate cake to be ate. -Yes.

And a road to hit at a later point in time.

-I'm ready. -Do you have social media?

I do have social media. Thank you so much for asking.

And what is it?

I am mobiletechlucky on all the platforms.

-Oh, really? -Yes.

-Nice. -How about you?

I do, I am alextaylorracing, and we are

"Hot Rod Garage" show. -Yes, we are.