That ain't no joke about the effects of sunlight here out west. After no less than 10 paint jobs on my stuff in as many years, I found that urethane-based paint worked the best if not a concourse consideration. I was reading somewhere that due to environmental regs, only 10% of paint production today is genuine lacquer requiring additional safety considerations for painting. Most everything else is acrylic which really demands a clear coat to be presentable. My Met and tear drop trailer got urethane paint and still continues to shine better than anything else I have despite the sun. The problem with clear coat in this sort of environment is that is is more prone to cloud due to sun exposure. Otherwise, the paint beneath is in fairly good shape. When I was heavy in power boating, unfortunately, I waited too long to strip the clear coat and had to do both base and it all over.
To: azpaul50@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: [General Amphicar Discussion-t-20805] Re: paint code
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:57:32 -0400
From:
Dave,
Not many cars had clear top-coat paint in the 1960s, and it looks different.
Now, almost all cars have that, and if the majority of your (all?)
restorations use it, most people would think it looks right. Not a big deal,
just a preference. Maybe those extra hours of sunlight out west here burns
off the clear top-coat.
By the way, that red one really does looks really good for having ten year
old paint. What? Oh, sorry, my bad.
Craig in Alviso (nee San Jose, Calif.)
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From: Midwest Amphicar [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 4:25 AM
To: craig.parada@sbcglobal.net
Subject: RE: [General Amphicar Discussion-t-20805] Re: paint code
<
http://www.amphicar770.com/amphicarf...ilies/eek.gif> . Don't
follow those National Geographics twits into clear-coat;
it's very fragile on a water-craft and does not look right at all. I found
What are you talking about "fragile"? I just got an email from owner of
"Brown Wonder" base/clear red. Done very quickly and still holding up ten
years later. Today finishing full resto #19,
http://www.midwestamphicar.com/images/redroad.JPG majority base/clear and
none have ever heard"that does not look right". I think you had a bad frozen
Alaskan paint. Later Dave
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