Re: Sanding Car ready for Paint

Posted by Rusty O\'Toole On 2010/12/30 11:49:01

No car company could afford to use nitrocellulose lacquer in the fifties. It was just too expensive and labor intensive. As I said before, the only cars I know that got that finish, were special order custom built Chrysler Imperial limousines, that were finished at the Derham custom body works. The Chrysler factory did not have the facilities.

I believe the pyroxilin synthetic enamel was the standard finish before the acrylics (enamel and lacquer) came along in about 1955. The acrylics were more durable and easier to apply, even then only the Cadillacs and other expensive cars got the acrylic lacquer.

Maybe some of the old timers can tell us exactly what Packard was using in 1954. I bet it wasn't nitro lacquer.