Quote Originally Posted by HOTRODPAINT View Post
Let me hijack my own thread! :-)

BTW... That hand made lace could be saved by soaking it in lacquer thinner a couple times. :-)

:-)
My Mom actually used gas to clean it. I found that out during the interrogation. I would have offered lacquer thinner, even would have cleaned it myself but it was already cleaned with gas. Also, the fact that it was salvaged didn't really do much to lighten the situation. It was a somber mood in the house for a long time. I figured my best chance for survival was to just shut up & be as invisible as I could make myself until the lace fiasco blew over. And as I said in my earlier post that day never really came.

Of course being the glutton for punishment I was, I repainted the car a few years later and did another lace stripe. This time however I wisely went out and purchased some lace from the store expressly for this purpose.

Even though I had my own store bought lace for the second paint job, it wasn't enough to quash the infamous story of Aunt Jane's Doily. Yes, yes I know what doilies are. The word is indelibly etched into my subconsciousness