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> Original Paint, Clear coat or Enamel?
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post Jan 20 2003, 03:43 PM
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What did 914's come with originally. I am told VW and Porsche were some of the first manufacturers to use clear coats. My local paint dealers can mix the colour codes I provide them but cannot find if they were enamels or clear coated.
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post Jan 21 2003, 10:26 PM
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Sanding and polishing will remove any orange peel and leave a mirror finish. If you are doing a factory look resto, you may want to leave the orange peel, as they didn’t polish it out.

Most good body shops do polish (at least a bit) to get that perfect look, depends on how much your paying them.

I have used the paint that Rich is talking about and its a good look. I still like the look base/clear better, but that is total personal choice.
Also if you sand through the clear you can just respray a coat or two, sand through the colour and your screwed. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

The urethane is a better quality paint then Dupont Centari (acrylic enamal).
Again personal prefrence, but I like PPG paints better for base /clear and their epoxy primer is the best, as I've tried them all. (IMHO)
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