Painting In The Driveway??

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I just finished up painting my first vehicle. I used all SPI Products and followed "The Perfect Paint Job" It looks good but was a miserable 3 years......yes 3 years!! My garage was built from salvaged lumber in the late 1940's and it THE DIRTIEST GARAGE IN AMERICA! It's a miserable hellhole. I blow it out, hose it down, wet the floor and try everything I can to get a clean environment but I have trash in every single coat from the first epoxy to the last clear. I can't take it anymore! I have heard mention on other posts of people painting outside in the morning before the sun gets high in the sky. I want to try this. Why do you have to paint befoe the sun comes up? Any other caveats to a driveway paint job? Just looking for an easier way although I have become an absolute expert at wet sanding. If universal wasn't so easy for idiots like me I would be screwed. I can still spray epoxy and 2k build inside because I always sand them out anyway but for base and clear I think outside may be better than inside for me? What do you guys think?
 
I did a few driveway jobs many years ago and they turned out decent. Why not line the dirty garage with masking plastic, filter your intake air, wear a suit and spray it indoors? A disposable temporary booth works fine.
 
I just never believed the area you paint in matters as far as dirt, I sprayed a black base 69 in AL years ago in a car port at daybreak, a Cadillac in a guy barn with a dirt floor and a black base in my garage one time where I had about 100-200Lbs of sand on the floor from blasting and all turned out good.

Only time I would be concerned about painting a car is if the garage was say a one car garage as in my book, the bigger the open space the cleaner the job.

I just believe be it right or wrong that all dirt comes from the car or the person spraying, not the air, walls or floor.
An example, the last car I had tri-stage base and four coats of clear and when done maybe 3-6 little specks of dirt on the whole car, then the T-tops I did after, I painted twice and full of dirt, so the third time being a charm I was not so lazy and put on my paint suit, head sock and bingo, never needed to buff them, That was the ONLY thing I did different.

Sources of dirt- Just my opinion??
Masking paper #1
Car seams #2
Head and body of painter #3
Last 3 feet of hose by paint gun #4 (tack it)
 
I have a friend that has gotten the cleanest paint jobs in his
driveway. He gets it all ready the night before then rolls
it out as the sun is first coming up. While the dew is still on
the grass, no wind, no bugs, no overspray, they come out great.
 
Many years ago there was an old timer a town over that painted late at night in the nude, some of his enamel jobs were the cleanest I've ever seen. It would never work for me though...just too much body hair. Unless I did like the paint tipping coachbuilders did and rubbed myself down with linseed oil. People have struggled with dirt problems since paint was invented. So if you wipe yourself down with linseed oil and paint it out in the driveway in the nude it'll probably turn out good.
 
I've never seen "out in the driveway nude" and "it'll probably turn out good" used in the same sentence. Might work out at Shine's place but my driveway is two blocks from the police station and the street in front of my house has six churches, two synagogues and a mosque on it so pretty much nothing I do will "turn out good".
 
Oh man bob.. I think i'd have a for sale sign on my house if i were in that neighborhood.. lol.
 
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