Is Lacquer thinner safe to use to remove original factory lacquer paint job
01-28-2018, 12:58 PM
#61
Le Mans Master
01-28-2018, 01:00 PM
#62
Le Mans Master
BTW, dig your other rides too. Impressive.
01-29-2018, 01:46 PM
#64
Burning Brakes
Been lurking following this thread.
I did the same to my 76 last year. Your pics could almost have been my pics.
My car had the original lacquer paint. I stripped with a combination of razor blade scraper, heat gun, Citristrip chemical stripper and hand sanding. didn't use any power sanders, I was too afraid of one getting away from me.
I used Evercoat's VPA to fill the bonding strips after completely removing the old factory filler, and Evercoat slick sand and then 2K primer, block sanding, sanding, sanding till I had dreams in my sleep about block sanding ha,ha.
Came out great.
One of the things I learned was why a good paint job costs so much!.
Congratulations, yours looks beautiful. The good thing is you know exactly what was done to it and what is under that pretty paint.
I recently bought a 1971 Mulsanne Blue 383 stroker too, everything has been done to it except a good paint job and I'm thinking about tackling that one.
You are going to be getting a lot of nice comments about your car once you take her out in public.....and you earned every one.
I did the same to my 76 last year. Your pics could almost have been my pics.
My car had the original lacquer paint. I stripped with a combination of razor blade scraper, heat gun, Citristrip chemical stripper and hand sanding. didn't use any power sanders, I was too afraid of one getting away from me.
I used Evercoat's VPA to fill the bonding strips after completely removing the old factory filler, and Evercoat slick sand and then 2K primer, block sanding, sanding, sanding till I had dreams in my sleep about block sanding ha,ha.
Came out great.
One of the things I learned was why a good paint job costs so much!.
Congratulations, yours looks beautiful. The good thing is you know exactly what was done to it and what is under that pretty paint.
I recently bought a 1971 Mulsanne Blue 383 stroker too, everything has been done to it except a good paint job and I'm thinking about tackling that one.
You are going to be getting a lot of nice comments about your car once you take her out in public.....and you earned every one.
Last edited by stock76; 01-29-2018 at 01:47 PM.
07-14-2018, 08:54 PM
#68
Le Mans Master
Beautiful!!!!! 
