Thread: This paint job on this 200SX, how do you do it?

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Is this that homemade "matte" black or whatever? I dig it, and I assume the person did it themselves. My question(s) are:

what do you need (what kind of paint, or is there just a matte black paint?? what kind of prep?)

and what else do you do to get your car to look this way?

Chalkboard paint? I considered painting my old truck with it, but I know my friends would have written horrible things all over it.

just matte paint and dont do it to your car and use google please

There is a product that's called hot rod black it's a full kit you can buy but it needs to be sprayed out of a gun

Ask the owner, @Mattick22

Maintaining that must suck.I bet everything sticks to it,and you cant wax it.Same gripe I have with Plastidip

next question was going to be about that, read an article about them doing it and the process seemed quite complex.

so the matte black paint is physically sticky?

naw its not sticky its just like any other flat paint...like your BBQ grill

I have a matte grey wrap on a car that looks great but it sucks to clean.I have yet to find the right product beyond soap and water for it.

@Storm88000

Thanks Dave!

I used two different paints by accident. The first being a Matte and the second being Satin. The cans were the same and had the same color cap, I thought I was getting all Matte but then my doors came out slick looking and my fenders looked like charcoal and thats when I noticed my mistake. Since, I have redone a few items in the satin which is what I prefer. As for washing and caring after it, I am afraid I can't help too much as you can see I didn't do any body work to the car before spraying as its there just to keep the rust off until I paint it properly. I have only washed with regular car wash and its been fine. I am from New Mexico, the land of primer gray so I wanted something different to temporarily cover the car.

If I was to do it properly I would get the kit from Eastwood in the satin or if I had bags of money go for the PPG option and have a painter find the right sheen out of the two clears they now offer. They have a shiny and a matte that you can mix to get the amount of sheen (not Charlie) you want from the paint and it can go over any base color so you are not limited to black.

Prep work is standard paint prep. Don't go too aggressive with the grit as the paint doesn't fill very well. Saying that I also didn't primer either. I repainted the bumper and hood last summer and did a proper prep and paint on it and it came out gorgeous. The hood has a bit of dry spray as I ran out of paint.

It should be said that when I first painted it in 2009 I knew shit all about nothing when it came to paint. The picture above is from 2013 and the only parts repainted have been the hood and bumper. I have invested much research into prepping and painting cars over the last two years. I purchased the Paintucation series from Eastwood and its well worth the money. Well, we will see when its truly done in August.

Hope this helps, I have done some research on this to see what my options are, let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks for the info!!