Project Hunk of Junk - Colour

[Dave Price]

Don't think from the this title that I am any where near painting the car, far from it.  But I have seen some inspiration today.  I saw a matt black 1970's VW camper van, then 30mins later saw a matt black Morris Minor.  Mmmmm, matt black Phaeton me thinks!  On my budget I would be painting the car at home with aerosols so the the finish may be dodgy, if I go matt black no problem.  The car already has matt black sides, 50% of the bonnet matt black and a matt black panel on the rear, so not much more to paint.  The idea of a matt black Phaeton is growing by the minute.  A few of questions

1) has anyone ever seen or done a matt black Phaeton?

2) do you think it would look good or dodgy?

3) would a matt black car with flames on the leading edge of the bonnet look to cheesy?

All commets welcome

[Dave Price]

The colour scheme I going for - note the wheel colour

[Dave Price]

Wheel Colour - I know that I am working in a strange order,  car has no engine or gearbox in place and the body still hasn't been removed yet to clean the chassis.  I have now started to paint the wheels.  The is method in my maddess, no space to store the body once removed, had replacement tyres taking up space in garage, so why not fit them out of the way.  I am in the process of painting the wheels to look like 70's JPS F1 cars, copper spokes and silver rim

Front wheels, rust Weller 8 spokes yet to be painted.  Note the home drilled Triumph PCD.

 

Wheel (rear wheel) after several coats of copper Hammerite, and some grey primer before the silver for the rim

 

Wheel positioned on floor over drum and showing the Dutton centre caps I bought off eBay

 

Now I need some advice on this one.  I painted the spokes with 4 coats of Hammerite and lapped this on to the rim to help hide the rust pits.  I then sprayed grey primer on the rim.  The problem is the primer started bubble / blister / lift / craze as can be seen in the photo.  I rubbed the area down and sprayed again.  Same happened again.  I assume this is due to the nature of the Hammerite (silicones) product surface, so I have concluded that may be I will need to coat the area is Finnigan's No1 primer after the Hammerite prior the spraying grey.  All comments and advice would be welcome

[Dave Adams]

i think i saw one at a show in the 80's......but go for it, would look good if done well.

[Dave Taylor]

That sounds good and would look awesome, Lotus Renault team colours now

[Dave Price]

After much thinking I have decided on a colour scheme.  Black with car gold stripes and logos in the style of the 70's JPS racing Lotus cars.  Complete with silver and copper wheels.  What do you think?  Has this been done before with a Phaeton? 

[Dave Price]

Dave.  Your comments about pink and grey got me thinking.  My daughter seems to think the Phaeton is her car and on Sunday when she was in the garage she looked at Phaeton and said "my car, my car, there's my car".  She likes pink, so how about a hot pink Phaeton?

[Dave Adams]

loads of matt black duttons........very common they almost never look good.......nope they never look good, i am thinking of pink and grey this year or silver and yellow......or bright green again.

Dont worry about using aerosols to paint your car i have done that to my car several times, you need about 4-6 large tins  to do a coat. you will get a good finish if you dont try to get a solid coat in one go, drop the tins in a bucket of warm (quite warm) water and shake before use. to do a coat on a phaeton your looking at about 30 mins or so......ezpz.