As the time approaches for my '79 Coupe to go in for paint, and I'm narrowing down the shops, I really need to get some key information about the Western Saddle Firemist paint so that it doesn't get screwed up.
90Brougham350 said that Cadillac used a metallic clear coat over the Firemist paints, is that on all of them? Because mine is lacquer.. I didn't know they were into clear back then. I really need to get some solid facts on this, right now I don't know how many stages my paint is!
Also, has anybody done anything with the color matched body side molding? My '79 has it because it came standard with the Phaeton package, and I'm getting told that nothing can be done about it, that it'll probably break when it's taken off, and they want to replace it with a stick-on molding that looks similar. Is there any other way? I would have liked to keep the car as close to original as possible. There's nothing wrong with what I have except for being faded. Although when the front fender was redone before, they took a black molding and painted the insert to match the car, so not that's starting to chip.
Please help,
Ben.
90Brougham350 said that Cadillac used a metallic clear coat over the Firemist paints, is that on all of them? Because mine is lacquer.. I didn't know they were into clear back then. I really need to get some solid facts on this, right now I don't know how many stages my paint is!
Also, has anybody done anything with the color matched body side molding? My '79 has it because it came standard with the Phaeton package, and I'm getting told that nothing can be done about it, that it'll probably break when it's taken off, and they want to replace it with a stick-on molding that looks similar. Is there any other way? I would have liked to keep the car as close to original as possible. There's nothing wrong with what I have except for being faded. Although when the front fender was redone before, they took a black molding and painted the insert to match the car, so not that's starting to chip.
Please help,
Ben.