Bert, FWIW and I guess I must have read this somewhere on the Vintage VW list when I was restoring my 72 Bug back in 1999, I undercoated my fenders with roofing tar. It has stuck on well, no flaking or rust though car is garaged. What you found may be better.
Mike Morehouse On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Bert Knupp <[email protected]> wrote: > Volks, > > After searching around – and drawing a blank online with RustOleum (no > reply from Customer Service), who ostensibly distributes Mathys Pegarust > in the USA – I talked to the old counter guy at my FLAPS. He’s done several > restorations. His recommendation: use Dupli-Color Bed Armor. It’s a viscous > black butyl rubber spray-on truck bed liner product that he says never > chips, never peels, and never lets moisture wick underneath it. A can cost > under $15. Haven’t tried it yet (been too windy to spray) but the write-ups > appear promising. > > Does anybody have any experience -- or cautions -- that might help me > (and others) coat my fenderwells? > > Bert Knupp in Music City USA > > Current project: ’72 SuperBeetle > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected] > <[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Bert Knupp > > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 12:55 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [vintagvw] Undercoating for fender wells > > John, > > Thanks a lot. This is the exchange I was looking for – and Pegarust is the > product I was trying to identify. Now to find a retailer who has it … > > Bert Knupp in Nashville > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected] > <[email protected]>] On Behalf Of John Sroka > > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 12:24 PM > > Hey Bert. > > Browsing the archives, quite a while back Robert Harding offered this > suggestion for a similar application > *http://www.mail-archive.com/vintagvw%40googlegroups.com/msg00706.htm**l* > <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintagvw%40googlegroups.com/msg00706.html> . > > John > > -- > Visit the VintagVW archives at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Visit the VintagVW archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
