Can you really paint your car for 50 dollars?

CarStuff

iHeartPodcasts

History, Leisure, Automotive

4.4 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2012

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Internet forums have buzzed for years with attempts to paint a car for anywhere from ten to fifty dollars. But how does it work? Should you try it yourself? Join Scott and Ben as they explore the fact and fiction surrounding this DIY paint job.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.5	Go behind the wheel, under the hood, and beyond with Car Stuff from How StuffWorks.com.
0:16.5	Hi, and welcome to Car Stuff. I'm Scott Benjamin.
0:18.7	And I'm Ben Bullitt.
0:19.9	Hey, Ben, I got a question for you.
0:21.6	Have you ever painted your own car?
0:25.0	I have only painted very small parts of my own car.
0:29.5	It's funny, we were talking about this earlier this week.
0:33.3	My family, especially my dad, were big believers in having just the little bottle of touch-up paint.
0:40.1	It looks like a nail polish container maybe.
0:42.6	Yeah.
0:43.2	Something like that.
0:44.1	I have attempted to paint an entire vehicle at one point when I was in high school, my first car.
0:48.6	Are you serious?
0:49.1	I did.
0:49.6	I tried it.
0:50.3	And very poor results.
0:53.7	Did it a terrible job. I made you know paint booth in a friend's
0:56.8	garage and we rented a compressor and a gun and you know tried to mix the paint and everything and
1:01.4	i did all the prep work myself and the body was in really poor condition i didn't even attempt to do
1:06.1	some of the some of the rusts so no pain no of that stuff. It was just a lot of taping.
1:11.6	It was a 1978 transam and it had that huge screaming bird on the hood. And I tape that entire thing.
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