<VV> Corsa dash wrinkle paint

[Williams, Rickie]

Is your paint missing/scratched in areas or just dirty?  If just dirty, I
have a solution.  Else, eastwood sells the wrinkle finish black.  The dash
for my 65 Corsa needed to be stripped to the bare metal.  So I used paint
stripper (keep it away from the plastic though), wiped every square inch
clean with a rag wet with lacquer thinner, sprayed the wrinkle finish black
and then set the piece out in the sun to get real hot.  Looks like a new
one.

The instrument panel and glove box surround for the raffle car was just
dirty (not all scratched up and with areas flaking off).  So, I cleaned the
pieces with PPG's 330 Oil/wax/grease remover and then as lightly as possible
sprayed a coat of Rustoleum Brand Satin Black onto the pieces.  To me they
looked as good as the other car's dash pieces that I had to completely strip
and re-spray.

The reason for spraying as light but as uniform a coat as possible is so
that the original wrinkle finish texture is not filled in with wet paint.

Hope this helps.

Rickie Williams
Columbia, KY



> ----------
> From: 	Norman C. Witte[SMTP:ncwitte@wittelaw.com]
> Sent: 	Thursday, September 30, 2004 3:22 PM
> To: 	Virtual Vairs (E-mail)
> Subject: 	<VV> Corsa dash wrinkle paint
> 
> I know that this has been asked and answered before, but has anyone had
> any
> luck coming close to the original black wrinkle paint finish on the Corsa
> or
> '66 and later Monza  dashes?
> 
> Alternatively, does anyone have a very nice '65 Corsa instrument cluster
> to
> sell?  I don't need the instruments.  I just bought one bare dash panel on
> eBay and it was worse than what I have.
> 
> Norm Witte
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