Thread: What brand of paint is "the best"

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Well since I am the new "old" guy I will try to be brief. Obviously you will do the best job relative to your experience and the customer should realize that. However, what happened to "the customer is always right"? For my part I had a MG midget painted in the original burnt orange (with black stripe) paint which was matched with DUPONT ACRYLIC and IT LOOKED WET FOR FOUR YEARS! For my money the Dupont acrylic is the best for gloss! I may be predjudiced because I went to school with the chemist Dupont assigned to keep Gordon's No. 24 Rainbow Car freshly painted for each race and including just about every color on the car! I am still envious of that job assignment! One other "old" comment is that if you go back to Hot Rod Magazine and Rod & Custom of the 1950s, the "thing to do" was to spray your '40 Ford coupe with 30 or more coats of lacquer (nitrocellulose lacquer may not be available anymore) BECAUSE you could spray the car OUTSIDE on a home driveway and then buff out the bugs and dust with a sheepskin disk and cornstarch. After about 20 times this coat got pretty shiny and even black could be applied this way, assuming the sheet metal was straight. Sooo, if it is my car I will request DuPont Acrylic every time and maybe you should experiment with it OR if you can find some nitrocellulose lacquer you can send the guy home with a Sears sprayer and a box of cornstarch. By the way, I mean no disparagement of your skill as a painter, it is just that I like the DuPont Acrylic (it looks WET forever!).

Best wishes,
Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder