While poking around on the Internet on Friday I found tale of the use of this material called Plasti-Dip on cars for crazy applications like blacking out trim and such. Further digging brought me to an entire company devoted to painting cars with this synthetic rubber coating which, when applied correctly, can be easily peeled away with no damage to the car's original paint finish. Needless to say intrigue filled my MotoBrain.
Saturday morning, with nothing better to do, I made a stop at Home Depot to secure a couple cans of this wonder plastic in spray can format. Back at home I got a little loopy with it on my crappy old BMW track car so that I could, you know, learn how to use this stuff.
So...Two cans of plastidip later a lot of hapless things sitting around my garage (including the BMW track beater) now have some experience using this stuff. The wing on the back of the car is now painted in a few layers of flat black rubber as an endurance test and soon (as soon as I get more of the sprayable stuff) the hood will also be similarly rubberized...again for the purposes of endurance testing this particular coating. If it all works out well then I'll likely just use plastidip to "paint" the BMW in the short term before committing to a real paint job.
And...well...it's just fun fuckin' around with stuff.
I really should have taken pictures of everything I sprayed with rubber this weekend.
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