{"id":7286,"date":"2015-02-20T11:15:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theshutterbus.com\/store-new\/blog\/uncategorized\/prepping-paint\/"},"modified":"2018-11-30T18:49:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T01:49:35","slug":"prepping-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theshutterbus.com\/colorado\/blog\/the-bus\/prepping-paint\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepping for Paint"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]At some point Nelly had been painted red and white over her original brown and tan two-tone scheme. The red paint was too old to keep, we certainly didn&#8217;t want a poo-brown bus rolling around, so after a bit of thought we decided to go with a classic mint green and white two tone.<\/p>\n<p>I (Travis) went to work on the body, cleaning up any areas of concern before we dropped it off to get painted. 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