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I'm actually kinda liking that...seems eerily appropriate for that vintage GC. Or maybe an early 90s full size pickup truck.

Now I am a form over fashion guy through and through. But to take an ugly SUV and make it that much uglier takes cojones.

Some reasons for pulling this off.

1.Hide the body gaps.
2.Hide the Bondo which produced the body gaps (or were they factory)
3.Hide the fact that the front was red and the rest was green.
4.Stop the aweful road noise.

Brilliant!!! uumpf matte

Good for hiding the door dings like the ones some jerkweed put in the side of my ride last night.

Aside from adding several hundred pounds to the curb weight, I'm sure it was an improvement. Now if there was rust underneath there then things are going to end badly (considering the age and Wisconsin license there would have to be rust)

I've seen this done many times. Works great.

oops, Washington state is better, but still rusty

Friend of mine did that with his Harley Road Glide. Every bit of chrome power-coated black, except the wheels which are powder-coated blood red, and all the sheetmetal covered in Rhinoliner. It's sex.

@Duffman: In the eighties when i was a student we painted our cars matte black to hide some imperfections, we didn´t even tape the windows headlamps etc. There was a very quick way to cover these parts with grease so when the paint was dry you just wiped the grease. Made the car very punk

This is PERMANENT. The only way to get this stuff off is to grind it off and even that doesn't work too good. My father sells paint and body shop supplies, he had a customer that had a truck with this done to it and the guy wanted to removed it. Short answer is: can't be done.

@BSAKat: Oh hell yeah.

I actually do really like this, aside from the weight (of course) - bet you could hit a deer with this and not notice.

I'm kinda partial to Aluma-Kote applied with a 4 inch paintbrush, myself. This works, too.

I like the concept. Not a fan of it done to a Grand Cherokee.

I don't think that's the fault of the bed liner; I'm just not a fan of the Grand Cherokee in the first place.

I've seen it done on older Jeeps and trucks, and like it on them.

This, I guess I can say I don't hate it.

@FuzzyPlushroom:
I'm doing my own bike, an '80 Yamaha 850 triple, in rattlecan flat black, flat army green and flat white. Fenders, fork sliders, handlebars and exhaust in black, tank, sidecovers and chrome in green and flat white stars and numbers. I'm calling this build the "Lazy Geisha".

Why stop at the grille? If you're going for the maximum turd look, don't go halfway.

Nice masking job on the grille. Reminds me of a buddy back in the day that sprayed his entire car with numerous cans of model car paint. Looked terrible BTW.

been there, done that.

buddy in highschool had a jacked-up 2500 chevy shortbed. bright yellow paint, with gunmetal gray rhino done on all the rockers, panels, and underbody.

he called it the bee, or stinger, or something to that effect. for 4-wheeling in rock country it is fantastic. the rhino takes almost all the abuse and leaves the body panels looking great. easy to clean, and externely durable. he didn't give a rats ass if he scraped on boulders, cause it didn't matter.

great concept if you have a heavily abused exterior, or potentially heavy abuse.

@BSAKat: Pictures or it didn't happen.

Seems rather appropriate for this car...reminds me of a lower-quality Hot Wheels ripoff where the paint bubbles had the consistency of cottage cheese.

I would not like to be a pedestrian getting hit by this turd ball.

Instantly decreased whatever retail value he had on this jeep to absolutely nothing.

@bzr - Pinko Commie Bastard Edition: Heh, which bike? I can just go out to the garage with my camera for the Yamaha. My buddy's Roadglide will take more work.

I'm starting to see this method used to replace Landau roofs on restomods every now and then. Saw a 1968 Chevelle the other day with it. The strip off the vinyl, grind out all the rust, and then spray the roof with black bedliner in place of the vinyl.

Is "light black" anything like "light red"?

Also I approve of this idea regardless of the color.

now it just needs a lift, some dana 60's some 38's and a hemi shoved under the hood.

@JHJVJR: That sounds pretty awesome, actually. Unless you're a super-anal, pedantic Barret-Jackson kind of guy...

This is super common in the off-road community. No news.

For a real workin' truck, this is not a bad idea. Sure it's not pretty, but pretty doesn't stay pretty long when it's getting scratched by trees and rocks.

I agree with smalleyxb122. I don't like the old Grand Cherokees much - too bloated, and they don't feel like real offroad vehicles. They were the first Soccer Mom SUV, at least that I noticed, and I've always held that against them.

@eastaboga: The aerodynamics issue is likely much more than the weight. Assuming though that it actually took 60 gallons I would be surprised if this constituted "hundreds of pounds". I have not been able to find anything to back this up, (and I am not looking for a debate here) but it would surprise me if it weighed above 200lbs. (I know that 200 is hundreds)

@BSAKat: Yeah, I have no problem with it. It's one way of ridding yourself of the moisture-under-vinyl-landau-caused rust.

It actually looked pretty good.

I read somewhere once that the stealth airplanes were coated in some type of radar-absorbing material that didn't allow the beams to bounce off the surface and register their location. I always thought it'd be nice to get your hands on a can of that stuff and paint a car with it...not that I think liquid bedliner would have that same ability, nor would a GC necessarily need that ability, but at least it provides a glimpse of what a car might look like with such an exterior treatment. Can't say I can see if working on a sports car, though.

Oh yeah... and I really like it. I think I might have to do it to my Volvo in a OliveDrab urban assault look.

And despite the hate in these comments for it, I take no issue with it. I think it looks good, but i'd have done the grille too. The truck was never a speed demon, so what's 30lbs of paint between friends? Door dings are no longer an issue, i'm sure.

It may just be close to 200lbs extra weight. Latex house paint has a density of 10 lbs/gallon. I'm sure this is closer to 16 lbs/gallon. If they used 14 or so gallons, that's 200 lbs right there. Definitely possible.

Heres a rhino coated Chevy from Park Street show last year

@Mike the Dog: My dad painted a '68 (I think) Coronet 440 Sky Blue Rustoleum...with a 4" paint brush.

It's a body condom.

Line-X looks much better.

[www.linexfortworthtexas.com]

@crazygutgut: Nice. While that truck may never see a trail, it certainly shows that the effect can be done with panache and flair as well.
@shocker: If uncommon, can you give us some idea how much weight it actually ends up adding?

vancurenw:

So you're saying it might still be stuck running high 16s in the quartermile? I can't see weight being a primary concern in a full bodied Jeep, ever.

(and i accidentally left a 0 off my "30" lbs of paint. Heh.)

@vancurenw: When paint dries, the water evaporates.

@beercheck: I'm speaking for latex, of course. Dunno what this stuff's based on.

I like it... I think it's suitable for a an SUV - especially one that is actually taken off road.

If it was on a Ferrari 430, people would be pissing themselves over it. Go figure.

It has always been my intention to do this to a Scout, at least up to the beltline. Don't see a lot of need for doing the roof and the hood, but definitely the fenders, rockers, doors, and interior floor.

@poxpopulus: But what if it was an [i]off road[/i] 430?

@BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ: A friend did that to an old fox body 'Stang. The crowning touch was a giant red 'C' on the hood. Every time he got into the car he'd shout: "Quick Robin, to the crap mobile!"

Vented Wide Mouth can?!?

What will they think of next?

@A3rd.Zero: Works for golf balls, why not jeeps?
I love this, may do my '87 2 door like this! There's a Samurai in town that look to have been dipped in the stuff. Engine bay, underbody, axles, the whole interior, everything.

It's not cool until somebody does this to an old Ferrari.

@BSAKat: Hell, both, I just like seeing cool old bikes.