I’ve never painted racing stripes on a car myself. But man, watching this video is right up there on the scale of satisfaction with hitting an exact increment at the gas pump or pulling a crusty booger out of your nose on a cold day.
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As you’ll see if you hit play, this isn’t exactly “paint” but Plasti Dip. Plasti Dip applies like paint, in so much as it’s sprayed onto a surface, but it forms a rubberized and removable coating instead of a permanent color stain.
I think it’s one of the most fascinating consumer chemicals of our time. Spray paint without consequences! Kind of.
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Depending on how hardcore you want to get with your application, you can mix the stuff up just like real paint and fire it out of a compressor-powered spray gun. Professional tools will, of course, yield better results but I will say the little chunk of my dirt bike that’s re-colored with the stuff fired out of a rattle can has adhered pretty well for the few months it’s been on.
As for how to lay down a perfect pair of stripes, this video’s host Fonzie basically breaks it down as: a lot of measuring, a lot of masking and rapid removal of the masking tape before your stripe-paint dries.
He starts by finding the car’s centerline and running a tape line down it, remeasuring more times than I would ever have the patience for. That’s why my racing stripes would look like a palm tree that’s been struck by lightning and not a crisp, clean line like we end up with here.
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At about the 12:00 minute mark Fonzie and his helper start peeling the mask back and holy moly, the lines on those stripes are sharp enough to cut you. Beautiful.
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