agree.....I have have painted over "good" old paint that I just sanded the dog wee-wee out of. Then I have taken it down to metal. I think it really depends on the "old paint" and the type of paint job your doing. I am in the process of painting a late 90's Dakota and I am only sanding down the paint and spraying over it.
Old paint can make a better primer than primer (I said can). It makes perfect sense that the white was painted first. Colors that are darker than white tend to bleed through. That's why the Starshy & Hutch Torino was painted white, then the stripe area masked off, and painted red...
I can tell you guys that the paint on my car was pretty worn, it wasn't cracked or checked, but being in the California sun all it's life wasn't kind to it. Plus as it turns out, the original owner must not have been that good of a driver, every panel except the roof has had a dent or two, but she must not have been cheap, everything was repaired, so this car has lots of spots where it's had the paint blown in, it's had a passenger side door skin, lots of visits to the bodyshop in its life.
I'm not a bodyman, My brother is (42yrs.) & he likes them stripped all the way down (like your man is doing) with the new base coat clear coat some weird things "can" happen going over old paint. And it doesn't always happen within the first 30 day either. Good Luck! Look'in Nice!!!
WOW a body shop that will send you progress pics?!!!? That is excellent. Keep them around. Sometimes its not about how good of a driver YOU are......its about how bad are the drivers around you..... Cleaver
Car that old, unless you know what is underneath and it was stripped before, I'd strip. Get all the old 1k crap off which is what was used in those days, and start fresh with 2k epoxy for corrosion protection of the metal. And man the surprises you can find that a layer of paint hides, 30 years of opportunity to acquire damage, and have some quicky shop hacking it back together. Really what was so special about a old maverick, camaro. ect 20 years ago, I remember they got handed down and a lot of the teenagers in highschool drove these kind of cars and could enough could be found cheap, kinda like getting an older corsica or something now. Now a car built in the late 90's up may be pretty safe to shoot over existing paint.
I assume they will but make sure they also smooth out the leaded area where the roof meets the 1/4 panel ...
Thanks, I've already mentioned that to them, it was pretty sharp compared to my 74, and the same guy did my 74 in 92 (wow 15 years ago)
Todays picture of choice, I know it doesn't look like much has been done, but considering how dented up this side was, it was alot of work.
Lots of hard work! Coming along an that's great! Just noticed, I know they have covers, don't ya have old wheels for this stage?
Those are my old wheels, he takes them off while working on the car, I think he just put it on for the picture.
