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Old 08-27-2015, 10:56 AM   #1
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Looks like I'm making a road trip to TX with a case of beer and some Signal Green paint!
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Old 08-27-2015, 01:18 PM   #2
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Looks like I'm making a road trip to TX with a case of beer and some Signal Green paint!
Hey!!!!

My dad and I used to fix up wrecked cars when I was in my teens / twenties (late 70s-early 80s). The key to a good paint job was always in the prep work. It took patience to block sand that last little bit or apply that last dab of bondo to fill that low spot. There was a body shop in our town where the guy always turned out crap paint jobs because he got in a hurry to get the car into the paint booth.

Dad was also a good mechanic. We didn't use any mamby-pamby rubber gloves back then. We got our hands dirty. He told me once he much preferred doing bodywork because you didn't get your hands as dirty. As a punk kid, that didn't make sense to me. Now that I'm older, I understand.

Sorry I can't answer your question. My experience is with laquer and enamel. That was when gas was $1.20 a gallon.
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