Painted Pinstripe Removal
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Painted Pinstripe Removal
I just finished removing the painted pinstripes on my 2001 Speedway White coupe. They had been on since the summer of 2002 (prior to me owning the car). After reading about it here on CF, I used Easy Off - Heavy Duty, oven cleaner. I am glad I didn't pay a bodyshop to take them off. It only cost me the $6.00 for the can of Easy Off and about 1.5 hours of my time and a little elbow grease. I also recomend wearing gloves my finger tips are pretty tore up.
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I don't know how this would work on darker colors of Corvettes. I am lucky tat my car is white and there is very little paint fade. I don't know that I would have done this on a Black or Blue car.
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These were painted pinstripes done after/on top of the clear coat. The paint fade was sun caused not chemical caused. Like I said I can see a very faint line but I think after waxing the car it will go away.
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What you're seeing is the "tatoo" of the pinstripe paint. Years ago, I had an oval track car, and had one of the sponsor's business name lettered on the car. Two seasons later, he bailed out on me. I used the "oven cleaner" trick to remove the lettering paint, which was probably similar to the pinstripe paint. But there was still the faint image where the chemicals of the lettering paint had etched into the base color.
