Garage Done!
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Safety Car
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From: Buckeye, AZ
St. Jude Donor '12-'13
Garage Done!
I finally finished my garage. Here are some pics:
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rtlc/P8220134.JPG[img]
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rtlc/P8220133.JPG[img]
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rtlc/P8220132.JPG[img]
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rtlc/P8220131.JPG[img]
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rtlc/P8220130.JPG[img]
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rtlc/P8220129.JPG[img]
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rtlc/P8220128.JPG[img]
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rtlc/P8220127.JPG[img]
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rtlc/P8220126.JPG[img]
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rtlc/P8220125.JPG[img]
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rtlc/P8220134.JPG[img]
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rtlc/P8220133.JPG[img]
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rtlc/P8220132.JPG[img]
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rtlc/P8220131.JPG[img]
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rtlc/P8220130.JPG[img]
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rtlc/P8220129.JPG[img]
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rtlc/P8220128.JPG[img]
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rtlc/P8220127.JPG[img]
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rtlc/P8220126.JPG[img]
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~rtlc/P8220125.JPG[img]
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Safety Car
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From: Buckeye, AZ
St. Jude Donor '12-'13
It's A RustOleum solvent based industrial epoxy. It's not the standard water based kit available at most stores. This paint can be ordered from most suppliers that carry RustOleum products. It seems as tough as can be. I could barely cut through out on the tape around the baseboards. It has been done about a month and has shown no wear at all or tire pops. So far this is the best of any paint I have every tried.
Le Mans Master
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From: Not Correctly Restored Stingray Fla.
Real Nice !!! 
Do you work on your car much in there or out on your driveway?? What about rolling a floor jack on that. Or putting your car on jack stands if need to? How will the paint hold up. Looks real nice. I try to make my garage like that but I do "LOTA" work in the garage. I have the work bench, cabinets, tool box, even a sink (so I do not use an inside bathroom), 20 gal parts washer. But can't seem to keep it "THAT" clean. You CAN walk "barefoot" in my garage, but yours is emaculate!!! Has it just been done?? If so, want to see pics in a year.
Do you work on your car much in there or out on your driveway?? What about rolling a floor jack on that. Or putting your car on jack stands if need to? How will the paint hold up. Looks real nice. I try to make my garage like that but I do "LOTA" work in the garage. I have the work bench, cabinets, tool box, even a sink (so I do not use an inside bathroom), 20 gal parts washer. But can't seem to keep it "THAT" clean. You CAN walk "barefoot" in my garage, but yours is emaculate!!!
Has it just been done?? If so, want to see pics in a year.
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Originally Posted by gliot1
It's A RustOleum solvent based industrial epoxy. It's not the standard water based kit available at most stores......It has been done about a month and has shown no wear at all or tire pops. So far this is the best of any paint I have every tried.
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Safety Car
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St. Jude Donor '12-'13
I totally use it as a garage. I used the floor jack on it Sat.....not a mark. I did put towels under the jack stands just as a precaution. I have rolled my table saw across it; not a mark. Tire marks clean off. Oil, fluids wipe up with no stain. The cost of the materials would be around $400 for the floor (3-car garage with small shed area in back). I was able to get use of a diamond floor grinder to remove the old paint. It took about 2.5 hours times 2 coats. You need to leave it dry about 2 days after the first coat and then about 5-7 days before driving on it. The sprinkles get tossed on whiel doing the final coat. The stuff seems to be much tougher than any paint I have used. I considered many different surfaces like tile, etc, but because I am outside of Chicago the winters are very harsh and many floors which will hold up in the south or west won't cut it here. We have an chemical engineer from Rust Oleum in our Corvette club, so he assisted me and advised me in many aspects. He claims the solvent based epoxies will hold up much better to hot tire pickup. Because of EPA regulations paint companies are being forced to go to more water based products, though he claims the solvent based are still much better. So far I am very pleased. He claims that the surface should last 5-6 years before a recoat is needed.
Very nice 
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Safety Car
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St. Jude Donor '12-'13
I started out just picking them up here or there. As I wanted all 50 states, I started working swap meets and then to finish it I worked ebay. I have all 50 states, and the toughest, last one I got was Oklahoma. It worked out almost prefectly that the 50 go all the way around the garage in one band.
Drifting
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From: Allen, TX, USA
Dude!!!
That is some model - My hats off to your modeling skills. I've never seen
such detail in pictures of a model of a car and its environment.
Its obvious that isn't a garage - maybe its from a movie or something
where no work gets done...
I've never seen a garage like that!
That is some model - My hats off to your modeling skills. I've never seen
such detail in pictures of a model of a car and its environment.
Its obvious that isn't a garage - maybe its from a movie or something
where no work gets done...
I've never seen a garage like that!
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From: Lenoir City Tennessee
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St. Jude Donor '05-'06-'07-'08-'09-'10-'11-'12-'13-'14-'15
Very nice garage. Your garage gives us something to shoot for when we redo ours. Lots of work there. I like the bikini calendar too.
