That Old Paint Is Tough!

[rboltz]

Media blasted the last items but boy what problems. The hood and front fenders could not be completely stripped with the media. The hood was the worst and, as you can see in the picture, black primer and a lime green paint resisted the blasting. The other top coats came right off. That stuff is HARD!!! I had to sand and use my grinder with a wire wheel to get it off.

This was only on the parts mentioned. The rest of the truck did not have this resistant paint so I assume replacement parts were installed sometime. I wonder why that paint is like epoxy as back then, I don't think epoxy paints existed.

 

[Tuko]

my truck has 3 layers on it. red (current) bright yellow, then OD. I spilled some brake fluid on the tailgate, where it pooled all the paint came off but the OD looked brand new.

 

[WarrenD]

Someone may have painted it with CARC.

 

[zout]

As WarrenD mentioned - I hope for your sake whatever paint you were removing you had the proper air respirator on and working properly as well.

Never trust the paint as some of it was even lead based folks put on back then - now you start sanding thinking it is nothing special and the lead goes nowhere excpept into your system like CARC or variables of it.