ep 4 - Frame Paint Color for our Lowrider

Choosing the paint for our 1960 Ford Fairlane Lowrider project.

When you pop thay hood of a lowrider, it's gotta pop, even when the lowrider is a super budget project.

That's right, we are building a budget friendly lowrider. Now understand that when we are talking about budget friendly, lowriders are about as expensive as projects come. So while our channel focuses on budget friendly DIY type builds, this one's still gonna take some cash. but it's doable by you, at home.

In this short episode, we are taking a look at a cheap good looking option for our under hood.

My thought was this, if I'm going down to the frame and pulling the engine, I better take the time to restore and clean things up. I could paint it black, but let's be straight to the point, black is stock, and sure a clean black frame looks good, but I want custom.

One issue I have is that I'm not set on a color for the car. I originally thought about going with a white, then I really like the idea of a bright color like an orange or something crazy, but MAN I seen this light blue Chevy c3 Corvette today that caught my attention from a distance and got the ideas flowing.

Being a lowrider, I'm gonna be coming in with some airbrush work and effects, so I was originally like black and gold on white, YES, but could you imagine a white on light blue? yeah I have no clue what I'm gonna do.

What this meant for the frame is thay I needed a color that would match no matter what. I like the idea of white, but this is gonna be a driver, and white simply looks too dirty with road gunk and grease and oils and so on. so no white or super light colors.
The idea of going with a darker color caused a different issue. If I painted it a metallic blue and then painted the car red or green or something, it would look off. so I needed something kinda neutral.

That's how I landed on gold. Well, not gold, but like a dull kinda gold kinda bronze color made by Rustoleum.

"but won't rattle can fall apart"

Like any other paint, you have to do prep work if you want it to stick, and you have to clear it if you want it to be resistant to scratches.

Rattle can is JUST THIN PAINT.

When normally spraying paint, you thin it out. to airbrush with the same paint, you thin it a bit more. To pinstripe with the same paint, you thin it less. Paint is simply a starting point.

Rattle can is simply over thinned to spray at a low pressure from the can.

where you would normally spray 3 coats with 50% overlap from a spray gun, you'll need to sprat 6 thin coats with a can.