Re: [Chrysler300] Put on your paint and powder, you shout loud, I'll shout lo...

[Kenneth Wilson <jblken@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

All - My take on clear coat paint is it is still crap - May be OK for 
the Concours circuit or the quick auction sale. But for the average 
collector who does his own car or drives his car frequently to car 
events/tours - the old single stage enamels are the easiest to touch up 
or do spot repairs.   Clear coat may be easy for a pro paint shop to 
repair (usually they have to do the whole panel/side to repair a small 
spot) but they charge an arm and a leg.  I, a do-it -myself restorer,  
have had terrible results with touch repair on my late model-every day 
car drivers.   I have yet  had any newer, clear coat cars, last more 
then 5-7 years before the clear coat goes to hell -doesn't happen to 
cars, I have had, with 50 year old paint.

Ken Wilson
62 H

mwl1967@xxxxxxx wrote:

>Hi Larry,
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>    Don't fear the waterborne paint. I switched my shop  over a few months 
>ago in the anticipation that the lunacy that begins in Ca.  soon moves east 
>and with Az on your boarder it was only a matter of time before  it became 
>mandated by law. At any rate, the OEM's have been using it for years  and it 
>isn't new technology. Only the base is latex, the clear is the same  solvent 
>clear. The question becomes whether or not you can get the color  you want.
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>    I also don't know why some folks have against  clearcoat. There's 
>nothing that says you've got to lay it on a mile thick and  sand and polish all 
>the texture, or peel, out of it. Find a clean painter who  doesn't have to 
>sand out dust, runs etc and you'll likely not know if it's a  single stage or 
>base/clear finish. ( base/clear ) finish is much easier to  repair when it 
>gets damaged too.
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>    Why do you need two gallons? Are you planning on  inside panels, trunk, 
>all jambs and undercarriage? At any rate if you really  want solvent paint 
>all you've got to do is come across the border and buy  it.  If you get me a 
>color code I'll let you know which variants are  available in PPG
> 
>Mike Laiserin
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>In a message dated 11/2/2009 5:31:04 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
>JettLarry@xxxxxxx writes:
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>Back to the 1966 300 M. It has become law in this poorly governed state  
>that ALL auto paint will be water based this month. I want to paint the  
>1966 in the correct Spanish Red it was born it and use some non-clear  
>coated 
>paint. I have found a painter that will put it on if I can provide  2 
>gallons of it. Who can point me in the direction of a supplier of REAL  
>paint? 
>Hopeful in a hopeless state. L Jett
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