8 hr paint job on Jeep

Jul 24, 2006 9 Replies

saturday I was bored & wanted to live'n up my Jeep so I called a friend up to my shop that has painted a few bikes... I asked if he could do flames and this is what turned out 8 hrs later!



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That's pretty cool! I went and played in the mud a little this weekend too... I got SOOOoooo Stuck! I was high centered, sittin on the belly of the beast.

It's all my husband's fault... yep... *snikker*

Wow that turned out really well, I might let my brother do something like that when I get a new hood after walking all over it when I got sunk in the water last year. What size tires are those you have anyways? They look good.

Troy

they are 35x12.50 ...I am very pleased with the flames but I will be more pleased tomorrow after it is striped & finished!

What kind of lift did you put on it?

And...

You are going to post photos of it all striped and clear coated... right?

Kate

Umm, flames...

I always am a sucker for a cool flame job. Your buddy does nice work.

J.

Jeeper wrote:

thanks just need to re-clear it tonight then wetsand & buff

LOL... Just ONE

but I just reformatted my computin machine, and I have nothing to upload it with at the mo... Nothing really spetacular, just one itty bitty white jeep, sitting on his belly pan, with all four wheels spinning.

*sigh*

It was pretty funny in an absurd sort of way.

I said "Honey, I think it's a little too deep and we're out here all by ourselves with no recovery strap, winch or anything."

He said -"Naw, you can do it"

I said - "But, it looks like I might get high centered"

He said, "Just go on around the edge, you'll be just fine"

I said "Ok, but it's quite a ways to walk back to the house to get the truck!"

He said "Nawwww... it'sll be JUST FINE"

We made it through going up the hill, but it had rained the day before and everything velt pretty unstable and then, well... coming back down ...we didn't do so well.

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The Jeep was resting ON all of the skid plates and the axles with all four wheels just a turning roundy round.

Before it lost traction It drug itself about four feet.

After scrounging what we could to try and get something under the tires, we decided to walk out.

Luckily, one of our neighbors drove by bout ten minutes after we had walked out to the highway. We got the truck, all the chain in the shop (yes I KNOW chain is a no no, I was ducking as he pulled, it was all we had.)

On the way home EVERY (all four) person that lives on our road saw us coming home and had to stop us and ask what we were up to. Both vehicles, and one dripping fresh mud... not much goin on in our neck of the woods so we were the entertainment for the weekend. .

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