Thread: My ZR-1 saga...
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Old 10-24-2013   #2
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Default Re: My ZR-1 saga...

Here's hoping this all works all well, Paul

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Originally Posted by Paul Workman View Post
More good news: Since our cars were built, manufacture's have gone to water-based paints. One of the advantages is the paint matches the chips very well and doesn't change color like the solvent based paint tend to do. What he was getting at was I might not have to paint the entire car (as I was resigned to do) - just the panels that got scratched. (I looked at some of the cars he had in the shop that were fresh from the oven, and I swear they were perfect!)
I had one panel of my 85 painted by a shop that does good work with new tech. It looked perfect to me. Nobody I showed the car to could tell what had been repainted.
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