[classicauto]

FWIW, I wouldn't believe the guy on the mopar site for a second. I'm sure its not completely deteriorated, but if tremclad and rustoleum were solid paints that stood up on the exterior of a car for any respectable amount of time - OEM's would use them. But they don't, they're suited for deck chairs and rusty iron fences posts.

Additionally, most of the "rust" based paints are designed to stick to RUST. If you use them on a finely prepped surface it will not stick properly.

But on the mopar thread...the guy touts it as a $50 paint job. But the paint is worth about $40-50. By the time you buy some sandpaper, tools, etc. and invest the time (ALOT) to do all the bodywork, you'll have alot more then $50 into it by the time you're ready to paint, and at that point - to spray or roll on something designed for rusty old tractor parts just seems a little.............counterproductive.

Anyone who posts about how they sprayed/rolled/whatever their car with rust paint is of course going to tell you it worked great. They're not going to point out how the colour has faded on the top panel surfaces from UV, or how pieces of it are flaking off here around a tiny stone chip. Pictures do NOT tell a whole story of how well a car looks. My car looks immaculate in pictures but there is nit-picky-type marks all over the thing.

If you don't particularly care though and want it one colour, sure like I said it works for its base purpose. But don't plan on painting it properly any time down the road, otherwise prepare for a HUGE amount of work. Like I said though the thing that doesn't make sense to me is putting all that time and effort - and money - into the bodywork only to put on something that will only "work" when you ignore its downfalls.