Coke Ice Chest: "Semi" Restoration

[oHSo EuRo]

Really cool man. Good stuff.

[oprahhwinfreyy]

[los02]

Thanks for the detail. I would not have thought of doing it that way. But it makes perfect sense.

[oprahhwinfreyy]

Done. Just waiting a couple days to reassemble.

[oprahhwinfreyy]

What technique did you use to fade it?

Where the letters are, I painted a light seafoam green, then you should put like 3 layers of clear over it. Then painted red. let dry very good. Then took a sanding block with 600 grit and just wet sanded where the letters were. The reason for the clear over the green and under the red, is so when you sand off the red your sanding into clear instead of the under color. so you dont sand through the second color to primer or bare metal. Then the whole ice cheat was cleared

[los02]

What technique did you use to fade it?

[oprahhwinfreyy]

brought the car to the shop also.

[SuperMegaDeathRay]

this came out awesome...nice job...

[oprahhwinfreyy]

painted and faded. next is clear.

[oprahhwinfreyy]

God I just read this thread over again. Some of you guys care way to much about stuff thats not yours haha

And for any future poster, I DO NOT care how much its worth because I'm keeping it. If I was doing this to sell it everything might have gone differently.

Anyways after forever long of it just sitting in the garage and the back of my bug, I scuffed it and primered again. Polished all the chrome bits. Painting it sunday.

[oprahhwinfreyy]

yupp...that's what i meant...so when will you throw some color on it?

When it warms. Can't paint in rainy, windy, 35 degree weather, haha.

[Dudermagee]

I thought people pay a good amount of money for things like this in original condition even beat up and used. Does it not fall under the "don't polish an antique rusted gun" kind of thing?
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yeah its better to leave it tarnished and patina'd with the dents then to just sand and repaint it with the dents/gash's still there. Pretty much most of the Value is gone down the drain doing it this way. Its cool if you just want to keep it though. Love these old coke coolers

False.
They are worth more restored (professionally).

[SuperMegaDeathRay]

i have the corners, lid handle, and the longer handle that attaches to the side if thats what you mean. and it has a bottle opener on the side but its masked.

yupp...that's what i meant...so when will you throw some color on it?

[milano_red]

Man that looks pretty good.

[oprahhwinfreyy]

what about the nooks? do you have faceplates for them?

i have the corners, lid handle, and the longer handle that attaches to the side if thats what you mean. and it has a bottle opener on the side but its masked.