How To Paint A Jeep?

Actually a Canadian Tire portable.

Way back in the Mysts of Tyme ( 6 or 7 yeras ago) I knew I was going to be soon painting Tonk and a fender off our beetle Put that got doinked in a parking lot (litterally) fender bender.. I didn't want to do it in the garage because of the dust issues & overspray & limited space for maneuvering. One of the old-timey guys here, Thad who posted under "Old Bill" had one time devised a design for a portable shelter made of pvc tubing & fittings, that's what i had in mind for building a booth oustside but then it occured to me that if i could find an old portable garages for, oh say, $75 or so I'd be all set. Wasn't worried about the tarp as I would be using plastic sheeting so I had enough light.

So's I get's on Da Net & within 30 seconds I find someone about an hour away selling a good frame with a bad tarp for $75.

I give him a call, he gives me the directions, I load the wife into the Durango & of we go.

I get there , he shows me the frame, everything looks good. He's using the tarp to cover some lumber so I tell him to keep it and we commence into the diss-assembly.

After a bit he asks me my name, Howard Eisenhauer I say. He asks me to spell Eisnenhauer, I do & he says his last name is Eisener, but his father spelled it the same as I do. ( He says he's descended from one of three brothers who came over from Germany in 1750. I say that's interesting, I"M descended from one of three brothers who came over from Germany in 1750

After a while longer he asks me where I work, I say for the local cable/internet/wireline/wireless outfit. "OH" he says, "I work for the telephone company, do you know Jim/Steve/Ben/yaddayaddayadda, the work for the local cable/internet/wireline/wireless outfit but they used to work for the telephone company".

I knew them all.

A while later he asks me what I want the frame for, I've got a couple of vehicles to paint I replied.

"OH" he says, what have you got? I say I have a '55 jeep to paint? Oh, he says, I've got a '56 over in the barn.

Uh-Huh says I.

A bit later he asks what else I'm painting, got a '62 beetle says I. Oh he says, I've got a '61 over in the shed.

Uh-Huh says I.

We finish up the frame diss-assembly & get all the bitties loaded into the Durango.

We look at the jeep, apart from a little bump & touchup on the rear passenger corner it's perfect right down to the factory canvas top.

We look at the bug- complete repaint required.


So that's how I got the frame for my paint booth


But you know, sometimes I can't help but get the feeling there was something a little weird about it. Maybe it's that his yard and my yard were both absolutely crawling with Earwigs.


Yeah, that's probably it.