TWINRAY

Hey buddies,

Moving along so I get this project done this year, getting off the last bits and pieces of the old lacquer paint that I put on in the late 70's..

Here's the paint scraped off the hood


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The hood now left with just the old primer


The door took a total of 1 hour and 15 minutes to do
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Now on to doing the hardtop

John 65

Thats really loking pretty good. Only 1 layer of paint to remove, thats great ! The layers never ended on my 68. You will be done before ya know it.

TWINRAY

Hi John,

Back in '76 when I did the 1st paint job on it (this will be the 2nd), I stripped it down to bare fiberglass. One thing good about the old lacquer paint is how easily it flakes off with a razor blade. Doubt I could do the same with the current 2 pack paints.

Easy Mike

The old paint on my '68 came off in long ribbons. I got into a head thing trying to see how long of a ribbon I could create. 33" was the best I could do and figured I got lucky on that one.

oldsarge

That brings back memories, when I stripped my 73 with the razor blade tecnique. Went thru alot of blades, and a few bandaids too.

Alan 71

Hi,
I believe that 'someone' has developed a process in which you can 're-flow' the old lacquer and spray it back on the car.
Regards,
Alan

bashcraft

I heard you can sweep it up off of the floor and put it in a blender with some lacquer thinner. From there straight to the spray gun.

yellow 72

The ultimate recycle ....

manofsteel1

Put a picture on showing what kind of scraper you used, please.

73silververt

is the front end off your car, i see the left front fender is partially off, what year is your car, dont want to be trouble, but i would like to see the the firewall and fender plenum areas if exposed, or if anyone else has picks of these areas i would like to compare to my 73, i think some stuff is missing after a previous crappy repair

TWINRAY

Just a regular ol Single edge razor blade - see the 4th photo with the blade on the cardboard.

There is a slight technique. Start with the blade at 90 degrees and "pull" a section toward you so a line of paint is removed. Then with the blade at a more extreme angle, keep the tip along the line of removed paint. You should then be able to "flick off" about a foot at a time.

TWINRAY

lol - I was gunna say in the next to last picture that all I probably need to do is top coat over the old primer

RiseAbove

never heard of this before, but why not just sand it?

onaqwst

better to razor or liquid strip it..... i used citrus stripper on my 77

79L48

You cannot paint over lacquer paint with a newer paint. You must remove the lacquer paint or any new paint you put on will not stick well.

70BBvert

Looking good, nice to see you're back at work. Get that nose glued on yet?

Jim

TWINRAY

Nope, not yet. The new front surround is still in the box along with the new front fenders and inner wheel wells that I bought 2 years ago

70BBvert

That's actually not that bad, it was 4 years before I finally hung the nose I bought

Jim

TWINRAY

then I'm actually ahead of schedule

L82shark

I am slowly scraping my black laquer off, a little bit at a time between beers. Biggest pain is cleaning all the crap up off the shop floor, those long ribbons keep clogging up the shop vac! I plan on using epoxy primer to seal the body back after I redo all the fender seams, they are starting to separate as well.