How-To Paint The Caddy Chassis
Australian Street Rodding|July 2021
Preparing and painting a chassis at home
Larry O'toole
How-To Paint The Caddy Chassis

Back in issue 370 of ASR we detailed the stripping, sandblasting and repair of the chassis from under my son, Shane’s ’55 Cadillac Coupe De Ville. It’s a huge chassis so it isn’t easy to handle without lifting gear and often a couple of assistants, despite being stripped right down to the bare basic frame. Nevertheless the necessary repairs were completed and the chassis set aside for painting before the gradual re-assembly work can be undertaken. Unfortunately the only practical place for the chassis to be stored in the meantime is on my Tuff Lift four post hoist, so whenever I need to use the hoist, the chassis has to be manhandled out of the shed while the work takes place.

Once the chassis had been sandblasted, I sprayed it all over with grey U-Pol weld-through primer to protect it from the elements. I found the primer very easy to work with and it did a relatively good job of protecting the bare metal – until I had to leave the chassis outside for several days while the hoist was in use – and it rained quite a lot during that period. That soon revealed the areas where I didn’t quite put enough primer on the rails and in a matter of days the whole thing started to look a bit shabby again with a layer of surface rust appearing extensively over the chassis.

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