993turbo

700 is the std. black.

dr bob

I fondly remember looking at Ron Perry's black '90, now in the wilds of Nebraska I think, and the effects of a partial 2-stage respray on just part of the car. The black under the clear was fading, the clear was starting to cloud slightly, while the original single-stage still cleaned up nicely to black. New owner has since repainted it completely, so I don't feel too guilty pointing out the mixed history. Reality is that body-shop repairs will almost undoubtedly have 2-stage resprays, a reminder of what Dave C shares about the single-stage talent pool drying up. "Painters" today are happy to fog on a base coat, then shoot clear over it to try and duplicate the original surface quality. They buff the he!! out of whatever's already there to give everything a nice even 'gloss'. There's a whole lot of forgiveness available in that method that doesn't exist in a single-stage. Bottom line though- If you car has had body and paintwork done, there's a very good chance that it has at least repair sections done in a 2-stage process. A little paint cleaner or polish on a towel will come up with a little color on single-stage, making this a relatively easy test to what's really there in a particular spot.

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Part of my CV isolation protocol has included going through garage storage boxes to toss items that have moved from the "things" category, right past "stuff" and into "junk". One of those things is a quart of Glasurit black I'd been hoarding and using once in a while to take care or rock chips and the like. It's turned into a solid, so is headed for the hazwaste yard. It's only 30 years old, but I still had to stifle a sniffle or two. Should I hunt down another bit of that now, or wait until I "really need" it? Best to hunt now, so the normal chip repairs actually happen.

I've been working on my office too. I'm down to the memozoic layer there. Just a few more inches to go to get to the silica (glass) layer. Maybe in the next few days.