Primer Question, Prime now, drive, paint later. Options

[ruby914]

OK, I have my flares on.
I am fumbling through the clean up body work that goes with that and finding other body work that is needed as I go.
Cass Nawrocki's book has already helped.

The thing is, this car is one of my (2) 914 DDs
In order for me to get clean lines on the body I need to remove the last 3, 4, 5 or 6 paint jobs.

I have some 5 Star 5425 X Treme 2K Direct to metal Primer Filler/ Sealer.
After I go down to the metal and spray with the sealer mix ratio, can I trust this to drive the car? Even park out side in the moist air, in the rain???
Then paint later, 6 months, 1 year later ??
What can I get away with?
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[ruby914]

Thanks Everyone,

I have heard two different theories on painting. One is to strip all the paint because you don't know where any rust may be.
The other is to not touch the original primer because "the factory primer is the best your going to get".
I can see both sides.
I also can see cracks in my paint in places and have sanded that down to find a rust lines.

The last car, I sent a roller for paint. I saw them scraping off at least one layer of paint. It looked great when I got it back but with in a year it started to delam on a fender.
They gladly fixed that but the next year some rust was pushing up paint. Then after 3 days of rain and no choice but to tarp it I found hundreds of small bubbles in the paint.
Again, fixed with no charge.

This car is no virgin. Hell hole is fixed by me.
From a PO, one door was late one early.
looks like both front 1/4s were replaced. Filler was found on the R rear 1/4 as well.

I want to do a good job of this.
My thought was to remove everything at a later date and send a roller to a paint shop for a proper job.

This time I planed to strip and see how far I could get with the body work maybe even paint it.
With shaping, paint and glassing over 250 surfboards, I feel I can do a good job of clean lines.

At this point It looks like I will follow a little from each Zach, Sean and Scotty.