No, I'm not nuts...really!
By the time that you spent $100 on rattle cans you could have bought an adequate hvlp gun. Just remember that in a couple of years when this paint is rusted and peeling off you will have to sand all of it off anyway to do a decent paint job. It's your car, do what you want. This is one of those decisions that you look back and wish you would have never done it. My 02