WOW! Yes! Glossy paint was what everyone had. Primered cars were virtually non-existent, at least where I lived in SoCal. The magazines and old photos do not accurately portray the use of gloss. If you had a primered car, it was because you were going to be painting it in the next week...
Paint is only on the outside it is what is on the inside that counts. I don't like bc/cc and I can't wait untill my kids tell me that only waterborne paint is real paint. Like some paint's out there are fake? Traditional= personalized to ones particular taste. Period correct= Kirby paint jobs to brush paint jobs to high end paint jobs. All depends on what style floats your boat. My father inlaw had told me in the fifties none of his freinds could afford paint most of there cars were all primer. I would rather drive my car so I go for the poverty paint job. To all about stripping enamal that does not sand off. STOP sanding it use paint stripper.
Oh, boy! Do I agree with this quote! I always thought that hot rodding was supposed to be fun. Often I have to look at the address to see which board I'm on. All this talk about what is "correct" or "period perfect" makes me think I'm on a antiquers board. (gag)
Yep, and there is a difference just in the clear you use now. Lighten up Francis. Hell with those Scion seats I doubt you even get it anyway. Just like now there was different qualities of paint and paint jobs. Did you rub yours out? another good post. Yes printing has come a long way.
I feel the original poster is making a lot of ***umptions about back in the day that were not true. I was there in the fifties as a teenager and all the years after, and I have never known in my circle of rodders, anyone who painted a car with a brush. I know of my uncle, who painted a 35 ford sedan with a Kirby, just to see if it would work. I never knew of anyone who went to a paint suppliers and bought a can of "satin" or flat to paint a car. There was no satins available at the auto paint place. Primer, yes, satin. no. Most rodders used nitro lacquer because it was quick, cheap, and could be rubbed out.It also could be blended and touched up as the work on your car proceeded. Enamel required an experienced painter to spray and was a pain to add additional updates. Orange peel was a no-no. The danger in these "traditional" ***umptions is that people start taking them as fact, and that is a loss.
Bob, you are absolutely correct. I get a lot of heat on here for trying to correct misinformation at times about those years, but it just drives me crazy to see anyone trying to rewrite history that I observed with my own eyes...
Go,man,Go,tell it like it was.THIS is why I come on tthis board.Us guys that weren't there NEED this kinda educating,or the history gets rewritten to suit the teller's own preferences. thanks guys Paul
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