Re: OEM paint

Posted by Fish'n Jim On 2021/11/10 16:32:44

You can clear over lacquer and it'll last better. The 15 coat lacquer jobs of yore are passe but was the "show car" finish du jour. You have to sand in between coats or you get too much build up and that's when it cracks. It not very flexible paint and low adhesion. You're more or less laying nearly dry coats on and there's no crosslinker / tielayer in lacquer.
I've never seen anyone to have catalogued the gloss numbers on the "as built" cars by year. I suspect the paint manufacturers would've and kept it secret. I go by what I see in movies, etc. Anythign that's survived that long won't look right now. So I don't think there's a reference, except in people's judgements which vary widely. I think the dealers would have prepped the cars they got from the factory anyway, so depending how good a detailer they had, would dictate what the car looked like.
GaryinSC that's a damn good looking car, from fishnjiminSC and I'm not a prewaree.