Hand painting my Escort Van with black smoothrite because I didn't like the colour it was!
I'm talking about a Mk2 1976 P Reg Van, I had at college back in 1988...
It was well ahead of it's time..it was lime green..not my choice of colour.
Smoothrite runs like a ######, and doesn't rub down to well.
You live and learn.........well err, no actually...
I hand sprayed a Capri black, expecting a lovely gloss finish...except you don't get much of a shine with Black Satin paint!!
I'd blown my budget on paint and couldn't afford the laquer I would need to make it shiny. So it stayed like it..
Looked like a stealth bomber.. with streaks.
Oh and I put a 2.0 twin choke carb and inlet on the 1.6 I had, didn't re-jet it..just scratched my head a lot..trying to figure out why it was using so much fuel...