So this old friend of my mom’s wants me to paint her car in cheetah spots. I told her I knew jack about painting cars. But she remembers me being “artistic” as a teen, so she’s convinced I can do this. She’s headed to Brasil to see her daughter for several months, & left the car in my care, along with several cans of tractor paint. I looked at one of the cans, & it recommended sanding old paint & then adding primer before adding the coat of regular paint.
Hmmm.
So, what kind of sandpaper do I need? And how important is primer, really? It looks like a lot of the paint (and all of the wax) has already been worn over time. I mean, there are still maybe three layers of paint, give or take, but it doesn’t look like a fresh paint job to me. She didn’t say that she’d sanded it, it just sort of… seems like it is…