Date:         Mon, 15 Mar 1999 00:28:04 -0500
Reply-To:     "Robert A. Alexander" <satcong@VOL.COM>
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From:         "Robert A. Alexander" <satcong@VOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: paint (f)
Comments: To: DThies1008@AOL.COM
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Dieter - My younger brother painted his first car ('56 Buick STW) with
enamel & a brush, when he turned 16, back in '67.  Heck, it looked damn
good from a distance, too.

Just for the heck of it, I painted me old '62 Kombi, back in vet school,
with a brush, but I took more pride in the work than Brother John and
used lacquer (before I realized that the poor little ole lac bug was
rapidly becoming extinct!) since that was what I had read Rolls-Royce
body-folks do!  I used "mother-of-pearl white" and put 14 coats on, with
light rub-out between each coat.  Of course, the painting was much
easier than the body work!  The paint job looked great, but EVERY
ripple/bump/minute hole in the body showed up well.  I rationalized it
as giving the next person who wanted to try to make it look good a great
"road map" to ALL the flaws in the body work I tried to perform!!!

BOB