Arrest Me Red: The Crate Camaro Gets Its Paint!

Today we'll squirt the crate Camaro stripe on some war paint. Finally flog the El Camino.

Well, almost trash in

no way.

Oh, hey, guys, welcome to muscle car.

Jared said that he was gonna bring some car by some show car or something. I don't know, I can't see in this one. Let's get in.

Hey,

oh man, this thing is so cool. Bad, isn't it?

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Hey guys, today we were painting that crate Camaro for inspiration, brought by a special guest. It's a 37 Ford Cabrio. It's one of the latest creations out of ad rides by Troy. This thing took top paint owners at

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I was one of the lucky guys. I gotta put about 9000 man hours into this thing. Now, granted this isn't a true muscle car in that term, but that's ok because this baby makes 600 horse. The attention to detail.

This thing is just out of this world and that's why it's in here today.

It's typical Troy,

an all steel body with one off Billard specialty wheels, a fabricated grill, totally custom interior, a handmade dash with a trick door that hides the head unit and Kill a graphics by Bob Thrash. Let's

get me inspired to get back on our rate. Camaro. Ok. Our Camaro is gonna receive a complete paint job. That means we gotta get paint in the door

jams and on the backside of the panels too.

So we're gonna go ahead and take the doors off the hood and the trunk and get them in the paint booth.

You always wanna make sure you have your station set up. So when you walk into wherever you're gonna paint your panels, you can hang them right up. You're not taking a chance on messing anything up. We're drilling holes in the hinges so that the panel will go back on easier. What we like to do is put tape on here and keeps the drill bit from going too far in these holes are a good reference point for rehanging the panel back in the same place.

Alright then.

And there isn't anything I love more than taking out bolts,

but you love taking out bolts, love

it.

I know

leave

Santiago to point out all the little stuff. That's what I do. Don't worry tonight, after the show, we'll be here fixing all that,

use racks to keep the panels off the floor and add a good work height.

What we're gonna do is we're gonna scotch bright the inside of the door jams. This way, we got a nice clean mechanical adhesion point for the paint. So all of this is gonna be cleaned out in scotch bright. We're gonna get rid of this mud. So we got a nice clean edge. The other thing we're gonna do is we're gonna take out the door latch. So we don't get overspray.

Next, we wipe down each panel with solvent

to get it ready to tape.

No,

as you can see, I let my hair grow this morning and

it's just totally unmanageable. So it just lazy when I try to blow dry today.

I like to use a really sharp razor to go around corners like this. It's a lot easier in trying to bend the tape around the corner and then I can just get a nice sharp edge.

This reverse taping is the second time we're taping the car,

keep it out the trunk too and I'll go, uh

the next step, we're gonna blow some white sealer on the door jam

and the panel surface.

We want complete coverage over the primer with minimal build up

the sea. It will get 30 minutes to dry

and then will blow on some color

PPG was cool enough to give us their paint chip book. So we're gonna go with Porsche

Guard red and I can't say it. So I'm gonna call it crystal ball silver,

pretty cool colors. It'll be a breeze to mix up because we also got a computer from and an entire mixing bank. So we can mix this color any time exactly the right way

a digital scale maintains accuracy. When you add everything together. Put

out,

you get Porsche Guard red. Perfect.

Outstanding, poor

you can practice.

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me Oh, absolutely.

To keep everything

together,

you can see some of the color swirled in there. I'll pour my reducer in the same cup to make sure that everything that was in my formula gets in the same can

take your time stirring to get everything mixed thoroughly.

A quick pattern test and it's ready for the food.

Oh, that's gonna be awesome.

Write down your times between codes. So each one

chemically fuses to the previous 1,

15 minutes between them will give you a good lock.

The red is applied

coming up. It's clear coat time for the panels and jams.

Hello. Yes. Could you get me mixing stick, please? Yes, I can.

The next step, mix up some clear to do the jams and inner panels will add a little thinner than a Scotia hardener.

It's back to the booth to clear the inner panels and the door jam

reds are usually more expensive because the pigment is harder to get than another primary color.

Hm. I am liking this red.

Well, it doesn't get much better than that.

All right. See what we got

now.

Lovely.

Let's get some tape off this pig and get panels on it

with the jams painted,

the paper comes off carefully.

When you unmask a car always peel the tape back away from the paint like this. Take your time. So you don't create any loose edges.

Go ahead.

Oh, yeah,

you're cool.

Ready

has a point? Look

very good. I think you're good.

Yeah. At least doing it this way saves so much guesswork, you know.

Oh, yeah.

Does it look good?

Like it's not gonna hit? At least.

No, it's not gonna hit. Ok. I'm gonna go ahead and shut it hard and then

ready. Go ahead.

You good.

Next, it's masking tips with foam later. It's lunch time for the El Camino.

It,

Maestro.

What we did was we put all the panels back on and lined them all right back up. That's where the guide holes come in. We're gonna put two silver stripes to come down and then go up the hood. This way, all we gotta do is lay them out when they're done. Clear it done.

Pow.

When taping up a door jam that you've already painted,

it's nice to use this three M foam tape

because it creates a good soft edge that the paint can blow up against.

And we'll tape off the interior

yet again,

using this ruler to push it back under the fender.

Get it just right where I want it

shape the foam. So it exposes the edge of the jam coat to the next coat.

Hey, guys, we put a ton of time into this thing and I'm finally ready to paint it. So I'm not gonna waste another minute

power on.

You're probably wondering why Jared's putting White Sealer on the crate. Camaro. The reason is you put white Sealer under that red paint bam. It's like waking it up. It's so cool.

Using white sealer is like putting a light under the red. Remember? Keep the gun about eight inches from the surface.

Oh, man, that is a red red.

I'm dragging Lou in here to help me check for any uneven spots.

I've been staring at this thing for so long that he might see something. I don't,

this side looks good.

Yeah, I think it's good.

Well, the next step is gonna be stripes. So

and get to it.

Thank you.

Hey guys, welcome back, man. We're gonna bam up this red a little bit with some silver stripes.

Now, when we taped up the car you saw us use that green tape. Now we're gonna use blue to do all the stripe work and that's because this blue tape has low adhesion. It won't pull off your fresh paint

and this fine line has like a plastic property. So it leaves a really crisp edge.

I think you should go the length of the hood and you know, die up here. Works for me, man.

Always use a razor when you cut this fine line. Otherwise it's gonna stretch and bunch up. If you use the razor to cut it, it'll stay straight.

Oh

my

goodness.

Uh

I should be a sturgeon by the way I handle that knife, a

sturgeon.

Uh I walk around the shop and I find anything that I like the circumference of for a radius. And then I'll use this as my template for making the curve parts of the line.

I always want to make sure the edge of that tape is really stuck down good because if you don't, you're gonna get

overspray underneath it and your tape, your stripe won't look as crisp

thing. You want to write down what air pressure you shoot your metallics at. It's very important

because that's gonna dictate how those grains lay out.

I'm thinking something in a silver for the back here, you know.

Yeah. This is something that's very important. Really take your time on this step if you get into striping or anything like that.

Just take it easy

because five minutes here, I'll save you eight hours down the road. Nice and slow. See, that's the way to do it

in NASCAR. They'd call it turn two.

I know there.

Oh, my goodness.

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Ah,

I'm

getting

pumps. I'm getting fired up. I'm happy. That's a happy dance.

It's time to put the icing on the cake. It's clear coat time. The thing that's really cool about this paint job is that the stripes will be under the clear, everything will be at one level that way,

just blow people away.

We've been sniffing paint fumes for entirely too long. So, we're gonna go get some fresh air and finally beat the hell out of that. El Camino. And while we're doing that, you guys take a look at this fashionable Camaro behind us. B A

oh, yeah. We're gonna tear these babies up.

Yeah. Our Camino's got more, enough power to shred those. When we get back. Eventually we're gonna be putting on these bridges stones.

This is Bridgestone's latest Potenza. It's the pole position. It's gonna be just what we need and we're doing those hard launches and high speed highway runs. Let's go. You're driving. No, you don't have to tell me that twice.

Well, the time has come for us to beat the snot out of our El Camino. Hit it. Maestro.

Right.

Yeah.

No way.

12,

no. Ain't drive shaft.

Rear end. If you broke it, you rolling the tire. Let's go, man.

Later guys, later.

You're replacing the rear end. I ain't doing it. I

told you it was gonna break.

Hey, man, give us a ride.

Thanks.

Oh, Sue. Come on.

No.