This thread is right on for my interest at this time. I am worrying over how to get the firewall painted on my '29 body before I put it on the chassis behind the engine which is already in the frame. This is a sort of a chicken/egg problem and probably I will send the upper body to the shop to get a coat on the firewall and then bring it back to put it together and wire the body and THEN get the outer paint. I have liked Dupont acrylic enamel because I specified it on two previous cars, a Ruby Red VW and an Orange MG Midget. The gloss was great and the MG looked "wet" all the time, amazing gloss! I am glad to hear from so many experienced folks favoring the single stage for solid colors.

Matt: check out the Jaguar "Damson Red", it is a color that I like named for a British plum (Damson plum). I like it but my wife gets all frowny if I mention any orange or any purple so I am going with the old 1947-48 Ford Pheasant Red BECAUSE my local paintshop friend says it is cheap again due to being adopted by Mazda. I don't know the number of the Mazda color but it is supposed to be the same formula as the old Ford Pheasant Red but only $33/quart AND it is more red than purple in a single stage, but it may be a urethane rather than an acrylic. I had a '47 Ford painted that color and with whitewalls the contrast is spectacular! Folks have asked me "I thought pheasants are brown!", but the asian game pheasants have a dark red patch on the throat and upper breast of the male bird that is downright purty!

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Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder