Thanks for all the compliments guys
Now would you believe that I painted this car using a roller and about 100 bucks of paint?
In total, including the primer, rollers, thinners, and sandpaper, I probably spent around 300 dollars on this paint job. I used Interlux Brightside yacht paint. One part polyurethane, no clearcoat.
Does it look as good in person as it does in pictures? Depends on the lighting. In my garage under flourescent lighting you can see every imperfection and even so it does not look bad. Probably on par with about a 2000 dollar paint job around here. So that means that it's no show car, it has some errors here and there. I also got some dust in the paint.
In the sunlight though the car looks almost perfect.
The grille was from a regular regal so it was originally chrome. I painted it semi flat black with a rattle can.
The most expensive part of the paint job was getting all of my trim powder coated. It cost as much as all the paint + primer on the car.
The whole "50 Dollar paint job" was in my case reasonably successful. It's a ton of work though. It's hard for me to say whether or not it's a better option than spraying. I've never sprayed with proper equipment so I couldn't give you an informed opinion.
I do know that doing the roller job cost me a lot of time in learning the process. I believe I would have gone through the same thing spraying the car.
I did spray the header panel, and both bumpers.
I used a preval kit for the header panel and rear bumper. That's a setup with a spray can that attaches to a glass bottle where you put your mixed paint. It works pretty well once I figured out that using regular thinner almost guaranteed runs. I ended up going with xylene instead.
The front bumper was rattle canned and thats why if you look in the pictures you can see it is a slightly different color
I'll eventually take it off and paint it like I painted everything else. But for now it's good enough.
anyway, I know there were at least a couple of haters awhile back when I first posted that I was going to do this. Where are they now?