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My Custom Painted RatRod Style Arosa TDI


mad-modz
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Hi Guys,


Well where do i start?!... hmm maybe a few pics lol!!


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My car started out as a standard arosa TDi, and then went on to be a ultra clean and slightly modified version... However after a few beers, things began to change, as i had the idea of rusting my car... I looked around for a few weeks, and could only find one chap who could supply me with an overpriced epoxy based kit, which upon testing reacted and cracked as it dried really brittle.


I still wanted the look, after seeing some great ratted cars at the shelsley walsh retrorides gathering ..... After a few more drinks, lots of experiments with different paints and chemicals, i made a flexible paint which could be applied directly to any surface, and would give me a real rust finish, without the worry about MOT or rot!


So the next stage was to get my car painted :D


This was done at retropower HQ on a saturday, and my first spray attempt (dont worry, im not the spray guy, normally i wouldn't be allowed to go near anything bar a paint can haha).


Prep was done at home the night before, literally a quick scuff / key with a load of sandpaper & DA


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The car was then driven over to work to proceed with the paintjob :D


I did have no rear bumper, as i seized the opportunity to fit a custom smoothed lupo rear bumper to my arosa :D


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With it in the booth, it was time to clean the car down and mask everything up... This was done under the watchful eye of Gaz (the sprayer)... between somewhere of starting the masking and finishing, a biro p*nis ended up on the rear window haha


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Once it was ready, it was time to fire up the booth and attempt spraying for the first time haha! I could have painted it with a roller or brush, but as i had the opportunity i thought i would give it a proper go in a professional booth.


Well, painting..... its not as easy as it looks haha!


I had no problems laying my paint down, in fact no problems at all... but damn it was hard as i kept rubbing the car with the airline, and generally leaning over wet parts haha! Other than the paint operator (me), the paint went on perfect, and 2.5 litres of it later i was left with this,,,


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I then drove home, and began messing with it again haha! I couldn't resist sanding it back to expose the metal particles in the paint.. so gave it a rub over with some 100 grit wet & dry...


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It gave me a pretty cool flat colour, however before i could get rusting i needed to sort some hot-rod style door adverts... As vinyl wouldn't stick to the rusting paintwork longterm, i needed to actually paint on the advert. So before exposing the car to any water, i needed to get my doors painted...


I cheated a little, and rather than getting someone to pinstripe the door, i had some custom stencils made up.... (thanks aircooled apparel)...


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These were applied onto the car, and paint was then dusted over. I wanted it to look weathered, so chose to paint the stencils using a bright and off white...


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Then came the fun job of removing all the bloody vinyl off the car..... absolute nightmare of a job!


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With my stencils done, it was time to expose the car to the good old british weather...


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After a few days, the rust started to appear....


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I then decided to buy some contrasting blingy wheels... Mainly due to seeing chrome works well against rust in the oldschool hotrod scene...
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With the wheels and tyres sorted, i put them on the car, and well happy with the outcome!
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Im now working on a few other bits while the car starts to fully rust... Ive made and rusted a custom MDF sub box (1000w RMS sub), again a nice blingy one to contrast the rust lol
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Im now trying to source a roof rack for it (nice retro looking one), and then work out what my next step should be :D
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Any Ideas?
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