It's kind of weird (brace yourself for an actual blog-blog post folks) but when I was spray painting my interior plastic pieces yesterday, my life sort of came around full circle.

You see, when I was 16, my mom bought me a used 1985 Honda CRX Si for a couple grand. It was my first car and even though it was navy blue (I loathe blue cars, probably because of the CRX in fact...) and even though it had water spots ALL over the body, I still loved the shit out of that car.

One day at my pops house, I decided to take apart every piece of the exterior body panels that were gray and paint them all black. I would drive to Track Auto (12 points if you remember that name) and bought up EVERY single can of autobody paint they had. I tied all of the panels from tree limbs in front of the house and did my best to paint each panel.

With a success at hand, I decided to do the same to the interior. Now, as a budding gearhead, I didn't know or rather, didn't have the skillset to remove the dash yet so I did as most 16 year olds did... I masked off the dash and painted it INSIDE THE CAR.

No degreasing, no prep, no nothing. Maybe a spritz of windex at best. And ya know what? It looked fucking dope. Until I touched it hahaha Scratch scratch scratch. Oh well.

Anyhoo, anyone who knows me will know that I am adamantly against painting ANYTHING on a car with a spray can. Based on my love of painting all throughout my teen/young 20's years, I consider myself a pretty damn good painter. I know how to prep etc etc etc and although you can do yer best to paint, it still won't hold to certain surfaces without scratching.

Last night as I was painting my trim pieces after deciding to scrap the idea of covering them with fabric, I was rather hesitant. I really REALLY wanted to cover them but I would have to use a thinner fabric to wrap the odd curves of the pieces and that would just look weird in the car. I'd have vinyl and OEM fabric on the door panels, denim on the new headliner and then ANOTHER fabric for the trim panels. That's just too much. Paint it was.

But yeah, long story short, Krylon Fusion is pretty much the shit. Yeah it scratches off but only after some steady picking at. I think it will hold *crosses fingers.

p.s. Depot can eat a dick for not carrying Krylon. Micheals too. Who the fuck uses rustoleum? Crap!

p.p.s. The clientele at Wal-Mart still amazes kate and myself to this day.

This entry was posted by JKREW, on Tuesday, March 13, 2007. You can leave your response.