A few of you old timers here might remember my Baja bug "Frankenstein" (built from the remains of other dead bugs.) Anyway the perpetual project engine is finished, installed and running. I still need to wrap up some details before licensing and insurance but now I need to make it look better. I have about $1500 in the balanced and blueprinted 1.7L engine and while I know I could have built a bigger engine for the money, I was more after a long-life torquer.
Anyway, the old beast looks like crap. It has what's left of the factory 1966 paint on the body, gray primer on the front glass and some odd green on the replacement (any year unknown doors.) I'd like to make it all one color but more important than the shade is I want the paint to be tough. I'm going to be running it down old logging roads in pursuit bambies this fall and I don't want the paint scraping off.
Any suggestions for a tough as nails finish? I'd like to spray it with the stuff used to put a rubberized coating on the inside of pickup beds but I've heard that stuff is outrageously expensive.
Tony