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Topic author - Posts: 215
- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 7:17 pm
- First Name: Terry
- Last Name: Horlick
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1927 Roadster Pickup "Mountain Patrol vehicle" from Los Angeles City Fire Department and a 1912 Model T omnibus restoration project
- Location: Penn Valley, CA
- MTFCA Number: 50510
- Board Member Since: 1999
Paint your car!
I just saw an interesting video which just may have some application in achieving an authentic “black era” Model T paint job! https://youtu.be/sH4249-gQgY
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Terry Horlick, Penn Valley, CA
1927 Mountain Patrol Vehicle from the Los Angeles City Fire Department (L.A.F.D.)
1912 Model T Ford English Station Omnibus
1927 Mountain Patrol Vehicle from the Los Angeles City Fire Department (L.A.F.D.)
1912 Model T Ford English Station Omnibus
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- First Name: Dallas
- Last Name: Landers
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 26 Rpu, 23 TT, 24 coupe,
- Location: N.E. Indiana
- MTFCA Number: 49995
Re: Paint your car!
lay it in the grass and spray it!
I dont think Mr Booth done it that a way ? My green roadster looks like that method was employed.
I dont think Mr Booth done it that a way ? My green roadster looks like that method was employed.
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Topic author - Posts: 215
- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 7:17 pm
- First Name: Terry
- Last Name: Horlick
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- Location: Penn Valley, CA
- MTFCA Number: 50510
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Re: Paint your car!
I think this is dangerously close to the actual Ford method. I love the prep work. The devil is in the details!
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Terry Horlick, Penn Valley, CA
1927 Mountain Patrol Vehicle from the Los Angeles City Fire Department (L.A.F.D.)
1912 Model T Ford English Station Omnibus
1927 Mountain Patrol Vehicle from the Los Angeles City Fire Department (L.A.F.D.)
1912 Model T Ford English Station Omnibus
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- First Name: Mark
- Last Name: Gregush
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- Location: Portland Or
- MTFCA Number: 52564
- Board Member Since: 1999
Re: Paint your car!
Looks better then my paint jobs even when I try and be careful!
I know the voices aren't real but damn they have some good ideas!
1925 Cut down pickup
1920 Dodge touring
1948 Ford F2 pickup
1925 Cut down pickup
1920 Dodge touring
1948 Ford F2 pickup
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- First Name: Terry
- Last Name: Woods
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1927 Model T coupe, 1926 4 door sedan
- Location: Cibolo (San Antonio), TX
- MTFCI Number: 20180
Re: Paint your car!
Done in the dirt and grass? How did they manage to get not one particle of dirt, or one blade of grass to stick to the paint? Impossible in my book. I smell a Photo Shop job.
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- First Name: Frank
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- Location: Moline IL
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Re: Paint your car!
First two pictures courtesy of the Ford Motor Company. They used a bigger nozzle then vs today. Last photo of Hobbiest
Then Today Hobbiest
Then Today Hobbiest
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
Mick Jagger
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Re: Paint your car!
LOL Its' a wheelbarrow, I don't thing they were worried too much about a little dirt.ModelTWoods wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 11:26 amDone in the dirt and grass? How did they manage to get not one particle of dirt, or one blade of grass to stick to the paint? Impossible in my book. I smell a Photo Shop job.
I know the voices aren't real but damn they have some good ideas!
1925 Cut down pickup
1920 Dodge touring
1948 Ford F2 pickup
1925 Cut down pickup
1920 Dodge touring
1948 Ford F2 pickup
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I don't care if it was a Shovel. I, still, want to know who they did it.Mark Gregush wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 12:49 pmLOL Its' a wheelbarrow, I don't thing they were worried too much about a little dirt.ModelTWoods wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 11:26 amDone in the dirt and grass? How did they manage to get not one particle of dirt, or one blade of grass to stick to the paint? Impossible in my book. I smell a Photo Shop job.
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Re: Paint your car!
Pretty cool Mr Whiplash!
Now I want one of those sprayers. I'd just spray Penetrol all over everything here.
Maybe paint the PsychOdelic with 1918 Black Beauty....
That's what I thought! 150 bar is a lot of pressure. 2175 psi airless spray. Like a pressure washer with a finer tip.
Used to paint airline ground support equipment (trailers) with 3600 psi of airless paint. Ya pop that trigger and it's like a hand gun with way less noise. Then ya get moving as there's a lot of paint coming out!
Oh, there was grass stuck on the one side but ya really gotta look for it.
Thanks Snidely!
Now I want one of those sprayers. I'd just spray Penetrol all over everything here.
Maybe paint the PsychOdelic with 1918 Black Beauty....
That's what I thought! 150 bar is a lot of pressure. 2175 psi airless spray. Like a pressure washer with a finer tip.
Used to paint airline ground support equipment (trailers) with 3600 psi of airless paint. Ya pop that trigger and it's like a hand gun with way less noise. Then ya get moving as there's a lot of paint coming out!
Oh, there was grass stuck on the one side but ya really gotta look for it.
Thanks Snidely!
Since I lost my mind mind, I feel more liberated
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- First Name: William
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Re: Paint your car!
Someone spent a LOT of time and effort, building a wheel barrow, when you could buy one for $50. But maybe that is a depression-era wheelbarrow, so they didn't even have a quarter, much less $50, when they built it.
In the movies I saw of the Ford production line painting, it looked like they were using garden hoses, and just flowing the paint on. It wasn't actually being sprayed. The excess ran off, (and was filtered and reused, as far as I know) and the paint dried to a nice, shiny finish. I don't know what year that was. but there were no spray guns of any kind. I was amazed at the time. One of those "So THAT'S how they did it!" moments.
When I was young, I went through the American Motors Body Plant in Milwaukee, and I still remember the guy doing the leading on the seams all around the body. I think it took him less than a minute to walk around the car, hit every seam he needed to fill with lead, wipe it down, and move on. I thought about that guy a lot when I started trying to do leading for my restorations. It took me about an hour to do my first seam. If I had worked for American Motors, I would have been riding on the auto transporter, still trying to get lead in the seams, on the delivery trip to the dealer.
In the movies I saw of the Ford production line painting, it looked like they were using garden hoses, and just flowing the paint on. It wasn't actually being sprayed. The excess ran off, (and was filtered and reused, as far as I know) and the paint dried to a nice, shiny finish. I don't know what year that was. but there were no spray guns of any kind. I was amazed at the time. One of those "So THAT'S how they did it!" moments.
When I was young, I went through the American Motors Body Plant in Milwaukee, and I still remember the guy doing the leading on the seams all around the body. I think it took him less than a minute to walk around the car, hit every seam he needed to fill with lead, wipe it down, and move on. I thought about that guy a lot when I started trying to do leading for my restorations. It took me about an hour to do my first seam. If I had worked for American Motors, I would have been riding on the auto transporter, still trying to get lead in the seams, on the delivery trip to the dealer.
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- First Name: Jim
- Last Name: Wilson
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- Location: NE Mississippi
Re: Paint your car!
I did my painting back in 1980 with lacquer because it dried fast. Bugs had to be quick. I painted a lot of parts hanging from the kids swing set. Did have one fender come loose in the process so had a mess of dirt and grass to remove. Paint technology has passed me by.
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Re: Paint your car!
I bet that wheel barrow has been around for 40 -50 years.Unlike the 50 buck 1's in the store!
What was pushing the paint?
I had a project "dumped" on me that i will have to paint. A neighbor bought a G Allis Chalmers and we took it apart for restore.It laid around here for 8 years.I finally told him, bring some parts, this $*$*# thing is going to LEAVE here rolling.
So I got most of it back together.He had bought paint and chemicals and the body shop decided to back out of painting the tractor. So guess who has a big box of stuff to paint a tractor? ME.
I have done some painting,but not alot.
What was pushing the paint?
I had a project "dumped" on me that i will have to paint. A neighbor bought a G Allis Chalmers and we took it apart for restore.It laid around here for 8 years.I finally told him, bring some parts, this $*$*# thing is going to LEAVE here rolling.
So I got most of it back together.He had bought paint and chemicals and the body shop decided to back out of painting the tractor. So guess who has a big box of stuff to paint a tractor? ME.
I have done some painting,but not alot.
If you can't help em, don't hinder em'