I bought a roller cage and a whole bunch of four-inch foam rollers, and a ton of those foam paint brushes in various sizes to get into the nooks and crannies. I primed the entire truck with one coat of Rust-Oleum Rusty Metal Primer, and then a second coat of Rust-Oleum High Perfomance Primer. With that in mind, I headed off to Lowe's for supplies. And if it WAS worse, I could just sand it down and pay Earl Schieb to squirt it later on. So my thought was if I rolled five coats of Rust-Oleum on it, it certainly couldn't be any WORSE than how Chevy painted it when Jimmy Carter was still in office. Entire swaths of the inside of the doors, rocker panels and underside had never received any paint whatsoever. These trucks rusted the the moment that they came in contact with oxygen for two reasons: They were made of steel that had the quality of hardened cheese, and the only place they painted was the outside, and even then the primer was showing through in spots. Here's the deal with paint quality circa 1979, when some dope was spraying single-stage black on my Blazer: It was non-existent. I also spent a lot of time reading "The $50 Paint Job" at, in which he painted a Corvair using the same method. I had read a story a long time ago in Hot Rod magazine about painting a car with Rust-Oleum and a foam roller. So I decided to take matters into my own hands. I looked into getting it painted at one of the franchised "I'll paint that car for $99.95 joints," but I learned quickly that the price was a lot closer to $1,000, and that the $99.95 price was reserved for cars about the size of the Cozy Coupe my son was running around the front yard in.
My hope was that I was going to have time to roll it into the school's fancy-pants Devilbiss downdraft spray booth, but I ran out of time before the 12-week class was over. To take care of the rust, I took a night class at Assabet Valley Vocational High School where I replaced a door, the inner and outer fenders, the rusty rocker panels and some minor rust in the rear quarters. It only has 60,000 miles on it, but it had suffered through 35 New England winters as a plow truck. It's a 1979 Chevrolet Blazer that I bought from a friend as a winter project a few years ago. I had heard of Rust-Oleum, and I was bound and determined to paint my car with it. It may have been a joke, but I took it as a personal challenge. What is an economical way to get it painted?"Ĭar Talk's answer: "Have you ever heard of Rust-Oleum, Karen?" "The paint is coming off and it looks horrible. A couple of years ago, a reader named Karen wrote in to Car Talk's newspaper column, asking if there was a solution to peeling paint on her Toyota, which had been suffering from a condition called "delamination," which is kind of like mange for cars.
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