what paint to use

[roger55]

Originally Posted by _Ogre

also: before oem started using bc/cc vehicles looked dingy after 7 years, paint degraded as it left the factory
now you see rusted out hulks that have perfect bc/cc in the good areas

I agree but I don't think any of the American cars used acrylic urethane then. Some were acrylic enamel and some were still acrylic lacquer. I think GM still used acrylic lacquer well into the '80s. In the mid 80's they were starting to use some kind of water based single-staged paints but not acrylic urethane. In the 80s and 90s the American car makers were experimenting a lot with paints to deal with new regulations. Some of those didn't work out too well. With some of the early bc/cc cars, the clear would peel off after not too many year of being in the sun. We've all seen a bunch of cars from that era do that.

IMO, today, a quality acrylic urethane single-stage will last as well as an equal quality base/clear in urethane.