In the late 60's early 70's I was involved in a build of a MG TD classic.(looks like a mini Ford roadster) I was bought out of Texas with a 283 three speed stick and solid leafed spring rear end.When we finished it has a 327 Man-A-Fre carb'ed engine with a close ratio 4speed stick and a vett swing rear end.Then came the paint and body work.The color was to be black of course.Back then as many layers of black lacquer each wet sanded you could do was the art of the day.So we stripped it bare.What a mistake that was!!!.Every imperfection in the medal that was handled when painted at the factory showed up in orange peel.We must have spot putted and stripped the car 4 or 5 times.Any pit or mark that was apart of the car's metal required intensive work.This was a totally rust/accident free car before we stripped it.I swore I would never strip to bare metal a car again because of this.But in the end once it was finished,as a lark,we entered the car into a Clutch Artiest(sp) car show in Buffalo,NY and took second.The car was driven good weather regularly.