Re: [MV] Redneck

From: Dave Brubaker (b52d@piace.com)
Date: Mon Dec 23 2002 - 14:42:04 PST


We painted an entire SEA camo pattern on a B52D with Dutch boy house paint
and rollers! It took 250 volunteers only four hours to do and it looks
great!

David & Donna Brubaker
Member MVPA #18115
M-151A2
http://www.piace.com/~b52d/

President: Mid-Kansas MVPA
http://www.piace.com/~b52d/MKMVPA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Royce C Hayes" <rc_hayes1@juno.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Redneck

> This method of spray painting tires and wheels has been used in the South
> by red necks for many years. I have even done this myself a few times in
> the past. The large white wall also is a favorite of mine.
>
> The next lesson, boys and girls, will be the proper techniques of the
> paint roller to apply latex to cover rusted body parts and 1" thick
> Bondo.
>
> Royce
> ========================================
>
> On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:33:18 -0600 (CST) candlewickjeep2@webtv.net
> writes:
> > As I send this I feel my neck getting redder by the minute.
> > Yesterday
> > when I was hooking up my freshly restored M416 to my M37 to haul
> > some
> > church kids in a Christmas parade, I realized with horror that I
> > had
> > failed to change out the tires. When the sandblaster blasted my
> > trailer
> > he primed it in the gray primer. He primed half my tires and wheels
> > too
> > on each side. I left the trailer at a local tire shop to turn the
> > tires
> > around on the rims. When I picked it up the tires were STILL gray.
> > Turns out the overspray had gotten the inside of the tire (1/2 the
> > tire
> > that is) as well as the outside. So what did I do?
> > (again, neck's getting redder by the second!) I took the trailer
> > home,
> > ran inside, got a can of Gillespie OD spray and a can of Wal Mart
> > GLOSS
> > BLACK spray and went to town. I painted the outside of the tire
> > black
> > and the wheel
> > OD. Here's the scary part. It looks great!!!.
> >
> > Truly, at least in this one case, necessity was the mother of
> > invention.
> >
> > Now I'm having the urge to get that can of Sears premium exterior
> > gloss
> > white and paint me some whitewalls on my Jeep Cherokee.
> >
> > Merry Christmas everybody!
> >
> > Mike Pilcher
>
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