1969 international loadstar 1600 superior coach

[fook]

hi, i just bought a 1969 international loadstar 1600 superior coach, seats were already ripped out, ive started the floors any ideas would be great its a 48 pas. so its a midsize i guess,id like to paint it but dont wanna blow a ton of cash,and im hopless with auto paint so any easy do it yourself ideas on that would be cool to,im gonna build 2 sets of bunks in the rear so any help there to, pretty much im open to all suggestions thanks for the help!!!

[dirtygoat]

Welcome aboard...

Post up some pics...

[somewhereinusa]

Welcome,

Many have had good results using some sort of equipment paint and rolling it on. Don't know if you have an Orschlin store near you, but I think their paint looks good.

[fook]

never heard of that place but we have a lot of equiptment sales around my area, so ill check that out thanks and i have lots of pics ill post as soon as i can

[fook]

shoulda wrote this in my last but im going to tint the windows also,it shouldnt be to bad as my windows are 1 peice

[crazyman_stanley]

Just read around on other peoples builds, I have gotten some good ideas from seeing what other people have done

[fook]

thanks crazyman, and yea my eyes are buggin ive been readin posts for hours, must take break>>>>>

[lornaschinske]

Originally Posted by fook

... I'd like to paint it but don't wanna blow a ton of cash,and I'm hopeless with auto paint so any easy do it yourself ideas on that would be cool too...

Paint:
http://www.rickwrench.com/index79mas...llarpaint.html

Paint Forum:
http://rolledon.forummotion.com/

I'm using ACE Hardware RustStop, unthinned, with a foam roller and a small art brush to cut in where needed.

Almond Gloss across the window section, a custom mixed colour (in the Rust Stop... they have bases that they can custom tint) for the Body and Rustoleum Hammered Copper for the rub rails, mirrors, aluminum trim. Snow Roof Elastometric (white) on the roof down to the "eyebrows" over the windows.

I painted our Vintage Class C with a good paintbrush and ACE latex house paint. Looks good even close up.

[fook]

nice thanks for the tip, although im not sure how to upload pics of my bus? i cant get them from my pictures to here? any help

[lornaschinske]

When you click on "Post Reply", it will take you to the page where you fill in the message you wish to post online. Above the area where you type your message, you will see "B", "I", etc. Amongst all that is a little button that says "Img". Click on that and it will insert "img" and "/img" in brackets. You copy and paste your pictures location between the two words.

IE: Say I want to post a pic from one of my photo bucket albums. So I would go to my photobucket page and find the picture I want. I click on the "direct link" and paste the code "http://www.skoolie.net/attachments/photobucket/img_51402_1e35b719c690380c78bc4bbe9fcfadc6.jpg" so that it looks like this (but I omitted the brackets and used parentheses instead)

(img)http://www.skoolie.net/attachments/p...be9fcfadc6.jpg (/img)

Inserting with the brackets (not the parentheses) will post the picture like this...

[fook]

First picHere is some more...

[fook]

and a few morenot to bad for a 69 heh?

[lornaschinske]

There is also a Galley here (you sign up separately for it) where you can post all your pics. I only have one pic there (of the bus coming out west). I have a freewebs page with all my junk on it along with the photobucket.

[fook]

thinken bout bunkbeds in the rear on both sides then couches and table up front not sure yet on the floor,going to have a sink and would like to install power for 120 hook up or genorater need to read up on it though...

[Diesel Dan]

That's a nice looking bus! Do those windows open all the way down, or are they fixed? They don't have the usual horizontal split that I'm used to seeing on school buses.

[fook]

Hi diesel dan, yes those do open all the way, kinda cool you dont really see one piece windows or ones that go all the way down,the guy i bought it from bought it at the school auction where my wife grew up and has spent all her life, and they were the original owners from the factory so a lot of her family have rode that bus at one point or another, the guy i got it from was gonna convert it he started on it but had to many projects going ,so here i am with it ,

[fook]

here are some updated pics

[somewhereinusa]

Look'n good, I'm envious of all of you that go home every night and can get some work done.

[fook]

more of the floor

[fook]

i here ya somewhereinusa i travel a lot to im always home on weekends tho..