RE: What type of paint was the body of my 78 B painted with?

[DANIELS@LMSBVX.TAMU.EDU (Lee Daniels, daniels@tamu.edu)]

slindsay@nyx.cs.du.edu (Steve Lindsay) asks:
>What type of paint was the body of my 78 B painted with?  
>Was it lacquer?

My '76-'77 (titled as a 77, but Comm.No. is a '76) seems to have come in 
enamel, but I just repainted it in laquer.  When I tested the original 
paint with lacquer thinner, it bubbled right up.  But by covering the 
entire car with a few coats of a good primer/surfacer, I had no trouble.

Lee M. Daniels   Laboratory for Molecular Structure and Bonding   Texas A&M 
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