My 75 Finally Gets The Attention It Deserves(This Could Take a While)
It really was. Talk about a stroke of luck! In other news, since I don't want to pay a body shop for work I can do myself I've been removing the layers of old paint and have found a few surprises. It looks like the car was repainted at least once before I got it, and not just in a few places, but the entire car. I remember thinking the finish was kind of dull looking when I got it and it was only six years old at the time, so I blamed Chrysler. Now it turns out it was a crappy repaint and not Chrysler's fault at all. I'm also finding Bondo in places where I never applied any, which makes me wonder what my Duster was getting up to before I met her. It seems the answer is up to no good. Here you can see all the different layers of paint. From right to left we first see the B5 blue Lacquer that I applied in the mid eighties, then gray primer surfacer, then a gray/green layer of sealer, then a layer of blue I had One Day Paint and Body apply in the early eighties(big mistake), then a layer of blue that I always thought was the original paint, then a very light gray layer of primer, then the original B5 blue finish that I'm now seeing for the first time ever, then a gray primer, and finally the original base layer of red oxide. Considering the car was only six years old when I got it, it never occurred to me that it would have already been repainted. Go figure.
