I've decided I'm going to paint my GT40 and I want to get some training on paint prep and application. It's been about 27 years since I've sprayed a car and to say I'm a little rusty is an understatement. Both Dupont and PPG put on training classes that are geared toward auto-body technicians, and I've heard that attending one of these courses can be a huge benefit to the amateur kit-car painter.
I contacted a helpful guy at the PPG training center near Hartford, CT who said their Certtification 21 course usually has 16-20 people, is about 50-50 hands-on versus classroom and product description, and that due to the size of the classes, you'd have to be the guy volunteering all the time to get a lot of hands-on paint application experience. So I asked him if he could do a customized training session geared specifically to our needs - amateur car builders who need to prep and paint a fiberglass body. He said that he could, and that we would need about 8+ people to make it feasible. The cost would be the same as their regular course, which I believe is $100/day. I assume we would want a two-day training course. We would focus on fiberglass prep and paint and with 8 students there would be lots of hands-on activities. I think this could be the best $200 we spend on our cars.
I wanted to gauge interest in participating in a training course like this. I figure we could round up local (northeast) GT40 builders, as well as Cobra builders. I would like to do the training some time this summer - preferably July.
What say ye? Any interest? Please respond to me in this thread or email me at mark_worthington at charter dot net if you are interested.
Thank you.
I contacted a helpful guy at the PPG training center near Hartford, CT who said their Certtification 21 course usually has 16-20 people, is about 50-50 hands-on versus classroom and product description, and that due to the size of the classes, you'd have to be the guy volunteering all the time to get a lot of hands-on paint application experience. So I asked him if he could do a customized training session geared specifically to our needs - amateur car builders who need to prep and paint a fiberglass body. He said that he could, and that we would need about 8+ people to make it feasible. The cost would be the same as their regular course, which I believe is $100/day. I assume we would want a two-day training course. We would focus on fiberglass prep and paint and with 8 students there would be lots of hands-on activities. I think this could be the best $200 we spend on our cars.
I wanted to gauge interest in participating in a training course like this. I figure we could round up local (northeast) GT40 builders, as well as Cobra builders. I would like to do the training some time this summer - preferably July.
What say ye? Any interest? Please respond to me in this thread or email me at mark_worthington at charter dot net if you are interested.
Thank you.
