Bat-Fuzz

idrivejunk · October 31, 2015, 02:57:26 PM

Its October 31st... boo. Among the themed articles around the web today, I stumbled across "bat fuzz".

Apparently four Batmobiles were "flocked" after the show ended, to mask body flaws like cracks. Repainted later.

The stuff is whats probably on the console liner or glovebox of your daily driver.

It just got me curious and thinking of ideas. Wonder what that stuff looks like with clear over it.

Any of you guys ever mess with it?

Must have been murder doing a whole car, you spray on glue then chopped nylon fibers. I checked out flockit.com and wondered if there were any interesting traditional rodding applications where it was used.

sirstude · October 31, 2015, 04:55:18 PM

When I was in High school, my buddy had a 55 hardtop and he sprayed the roof in that flock. The car was Ford "candy apple red" (which was not candy) and the roof was black. His uncle was the distributor, then they flocked the wall in Kim's house royal blue.

About that time, there was a bar in Denver (might have been topless) called Filthy McNasties and he did a Cadillac Hearse with a blower in flock black with flock flames. Remember that in a couple of car magazines.

wayne petty · October 31, 2015, 05:05:46 PM

here is a flocking video on how to flock a 908 Porsche seat..

used to sell flocking spray guns when i worked at the paint store with dad..

the cup size was probably 3 quarts might have been a gallon size on some of them.. with a 1/2" hole in the middle of the air cap. that's what you call a flocking spray gun.. they used them to apply flitter/glitter also.

when i visited the petersen autorama in hardly weird as a kid.. i was truly upset that they had flocked the bat mobile.. the original Eleanor gone in 60 seconds mustang was there also.

58 Yeoman · October 31, 2015, 05:50:23 PM

An older friend of mine also flocked a hardtop on a 57 'Bird. Black over Red. Maybe back in the late 60's early 70's, I don't remember.

idrivejunk · October 31, 2015, 06:11:27 PM

Roofs, I see. I'd bet its a showy short term thing to do, exterior-wise. Can't imagine any maintainence being possible except air hose and some fibers probably come off even then.

Might be an interesting treatment for oh, trunk trim, under hood skin, headliner and rear window shelf maybe. That vid was a hoot, Wayne.

I have to wonder if painting over that would be a way to texture custom interior panels.

ragdol · October 31, 2015, 11:32:41 PM

A friend of mine who had a body shop here in Watertown, Wi. was asked to remove the flocking, & repaint one of the Bat Mobiles. They were filming a movie in Milwaukee, & it didn't photograph well with the flocking. Ken was a well known custom painter back in the early '60s, in Wi. anyway.

kb426 · November 01, 2015, 05:46:48 AM

In the early 70's, there was a shop in Hutchinson Ks. that was turning out complete cars rapidly. When I moved there I was surprised at how many there were. Talk about a fad.

UGLY OLDS · November 01, 2015, 12:33:23 PM

I remember shooting some lacquer primer years ago that went on soo dry it resembled "flocking"... :oops: :oops:

Found out the gun needed to be a little "closer" to the work & the primer applied somewhat "wetter" ..... :oops: :?: :?:

Bob..

idrivejunk · November 01, 2015, 02:02:48 PM

Yep I remember spraying unthinned lacquer at some novelty stuff in the 80s, kinda looks like spider webs. Hope your primer wasn't going on THAT dry, UglyOlds. Ha.

A fad indeed, I mean who doesn't want their car to feel like a peach. Or puppy. I bet chicks thought it made the car more "cuddly" if ya know whut I mean.

Flocking could be like pliers handle dip... put a new name on it and next thing you know all the rice farts have bright fuzzy wheels and its 1965 again! Just put it in a rattle can.

Fuzzi-Dip, yeah! Since fuzz no longer means cops ha ha, the street ricers might like it. OK , I've slipped into sarcasm now. But you know how plenty old things get "re-discovered" when everyone forgets about them.

enjenjo · November 01, 2015, 06:16:43 PM

When the van thing took off in the 70's, here in Toledo, in certain neighborhoods, it was a fad to paint the van with glitter, usually gold or silver, put carriage lights on the side, very large ones, and pad the roof of the van down over the sides with about 4" of padding covered with black vinyl, and port hole windows through the padding. It didn't catch on thankfully.

phat46 · November 03, 2015, 06:51:01 PM

Quote from: "enjenjo"When the van thing took off in the 70's, here in Toledo, in certain neighborhoods, it was a fad to paint the van with glitter, usually gold or silver, put carriage lights on the side, very large ones, and pad the roof of the van down over the sides with about 4" of padding covered with black vinyl, and port hole windows through the padding. It didn't catch on thankfully.

"In certain neighborhoods" must have been in the Phillips St and Detroit St. Area. We used to "shortcut" through there in the late 90's when my daughter was in Findlay to avoid the endless I 75 construction. My wife thought we were lost once so I said I was going to ask the guy at the light for directions. He was in the finest pimped out Caddy ever, wearing a fur coat and large hat, looking good just sittin' still. My wife said no!