Dr. Kang,
The real ANSWER is no...its the old adage: garbage in, garbage out...
If you are that desperate (and believe me...I know the feeling) to get some
TEMPORARY color on the car, I suggest you paint it WHITE (or some other
REAL LIGHT color)... then proceed to slap as many decals you can find on
it...this will hide a lot of those body-surface problems that normally get
resolved during the course of a "real" paint job. Cars' gotta be
thoroughly prepped for any "real paint job" anyway, so painting the thing
white won't really make any MORE work for the painter...
By all means beg, borrow, or steal the money to do this right-not too many
Europas left out there...make yours a nice one. You've come too far to
hose this car up with a BS paint job, but "whitewashing & decaling" will
serve to get you out on the grid that much sooner
Actually, $500 oughta get some kid with a garage to do a reasonable job-at
least "twenty-footer" quality...so, go find a gearhead kid w/a spraygun, I
think you'll be amazed how good a job he'll actually do.
good luck
Thom Kuby
Porsche 912
>????
>I've got a 10yr lotus (europa) project car that has finally reached the
>now running, ready to paint stage. The "problem" is the budget
>overrun(non-government project yet) precludes a "full paint job"-
>The QUESTION is what I want to do is spend $500 to get paint on the car
>(50 footer paint job), but does it make sense from a "painter" point of
>view to do so or does this just make more work for the "real" paint job
>(fully filled, smoothed, and sanded) that will follow?
>
>christopher
>
>("Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a painter")
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