Thanks Papa Kent,
I was thinkin' that the original AD interior paint might have been Duco early on and then toward the end Lucite when GM switched over to it in the early 50's.
I've got a '50, 3604 and have tested the seat side garnish panels with lacquer thinner, and it won't touch it so I’m assuming now that it's enamel. I have a quart of PPG CPC ALK-200, (Commercial Performance Coatings, alkyd modified acrylic enamel that I got from JC that I was holding off on using cuz I thought the interiors were done in lacquer. The side panels are out of the sun and are probably the best preserved original color on the interior so Tuesday I dropped one of them off at the PPG dealer for them to mix me up another Qt. NG!!
They can only mix the Industrial coatings in gallons, and I sure don’t need a gallon right now. So I said Omni? and he said NG, for enamel I needed Delstar. I’m so confused!!!
My thoughts were originally to have them scan the panel, give me the formula and mix me up a quart, thsn later if I need more I could simply have them refer to the formula. NGGGGG!!! To scan it an give me a formula would add an extra $75 to the Quart. He explained that the scan was pretty rough and usually off by a bunch and they had to adjust the tint by hand. To come up with a formula they had to count or measure everything that was added to get the tint correct and record it all for the final formula.
So, I’m gonna get a one time mix of a quart to match the panel, in a Delstar Enamel. I wonder if that would mix OK with the CPC enamel??? Just in case I run short with one of them.
Next thing I got to figure out is if I can spray this plain or if I need (don't want) a hardener, what to use for reducer and clean up and what use for a flattener so I the glare doesn't blind me.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
