Trunk Paint

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SharpDart71

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Looking for a good trunk paint. Preferably a spatter kind.

Any advise on what to use? Looking for opinions beyond Eastwood's stuff, even though it's nice
 
Paint it the body color. To duplicate the sound deadener, you can spray undercoating on the inside of the quarterpanels, where you see them , in the trunk, Then paint over that with body color. Thats the right way on Mopars
 
Spatter paint is a Chevy thing, same as a black engine compartment. Mopar uses factory body colour. I have a compressor, a pair of spray guns and i shot my own trunk engine bay inside and out as well as rear wheel wells.

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Ok, I gotta say it... While not in A-bodies, Mopar did have "spatter" type paint in late sixties/early seventies C-bodies. Examples:

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Those are two original cars that belong to a friend.
 
At the end of the day, it's your car do what you want. As long as you're happy thats all that matters.
 
Where do you buy the correct looking undercoating for the insides of the quarter panels?
 
You can also use spray truck bed liner, available at any parts store
 
At the end of the day, it's your car do what you want. As long as you're happy thats all that matters.

My kind of response!! I want the all-black spatter look. I'm not going for an "as-was" mopar restoration. I like me some customization!!
 
I used a truck bedliner in a spray bomb before and you get a nice result, it stays a semi gloss and its very rugged,
 
Who cares what color the inside of the trunk is? The dead bodies you haul around in there certainly won't know the difference. I wish some members here would stop screwing up an honest question with opinions that do nothing than take up space while the rest of us try to help the intent of the original post. I happen to prefer the look (in the trunk) of the gray splatter paint because it has a factory look because it was indeed applied by the factory in some years/models (but not necessarily in our A Bodies).

Personally, I used a durable two-part truck bed product that I am pleased with called "Monstaliner". I used black, but for an extrs cost, you can order tinted. Tinted, you may be sble to make a close match to the body color. So there you have a couple of workable options in addition to either the splatter paint or the more common body color "norm".

If all our cars are going to be exactly the same as factory, this forum might eventually cease to exist for lack of creative talent and exercise of our imaginations. The "custom" ideas I am most pleased with in my own classic cars are replacing the faux wood grain console and dash accents with real wood (Alder) and replacing the cardboard glove box liner with an identical shaped stainless steel liner (custom-made by a commercial kitchen fabricator who specializes in kitchen sinks) I hope I have made a meaningful contribution to this thread and I hope the original poster appreciates my effort.
 
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I suggest you take a deep breath. Learn a little history about Mopar cars, and how they are built.
Understand that they are factory once, and any changes you do, make it harder to re-do.
Understand that you will make changes, that you wish you didnt. Trust me, we have all done it on our first Mopar, and learned for the next one. What im getting at is "REALLY THINK", before you move. Ive seen your car, and its awesome. Im just trying to help you from making a mistake you will regret. And in all honesty, its your car and I can care less what you do with it.
And after all that thinking, you decided you must have some splatter paint, well then head down to Lowes and get yourself a couple cans of spray bomb. Im sure they can set you up. Good Luck !!!!!!
 
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Sorry for the "out of text" question. I agree For A body, answer is OEM is body color, undercoat where applicable. Anything else, in non OEM stuff.
It must ne Wednesday!? lol
 
I suggest you take a deep breath. Learn a little history about Mopar cars, and how they are built.
Understand that they are factory once, and any changes you do, make it harder to re-do.
Understand that you will make changes, that you wish you didnt. Trust me, we have all done it on our first Mopar, and learned for the next one. What im getting at is "REALLY THINK", before you move. Ive seen your car, and its awesome. Im just trying to help you from making a mistake you will regret. And in all honesty, its your car and I can care less what you do with it.
And after all that thinking, you decided you must have some splatter paint, well then head down to Lowes and get yourself a couple cans of spray bomb. Im sure they can set you up. Good Luck !!!!!!

As always, thanks John!! Unfortunately with the trunk not being in the greatest shape, I don't have the money to get a new trunk pan. I have to make a few patches and have been using the Eastwood rust-encapsulator. Then would like to follow it up with the spatter paint to cover up some of the blemishes. Below are the progress pics with the trunk.

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Looks like you got it clean, I say spray a good epoxy primer ( be careful if the epoxy is acid based), and paint it how you like, and drive it and smile!
 
Trunk rot is a good example of why the factory idea of just spraying a little body color paint was not such a good idea after all.
 
I have a friend that is a Pontiac guy, he has several survivors, Goats and F Birds. He coats the trunk floor with used ATF! ha . NO rust and smells like mechanics cars!!!!! He is a REAL car guy!!! lol
 
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