very basic question on paint.
Color matters here. What are you going with?
The little picture on the left is the car when I bought it. It had A TON of bondo over it and they used Sherwin Williams, Dimension paint. Last year I tore off all the bondo (literally) cut out the rust, welded in new metal, pulled out a couple dents and then applied the bondo as sparingly as possible.
Except the roof, when I stripped off the paint and bondo, the rust made it look like the surface of the moon. Apparently, the car came, new, with a vynal roof.
So I had to do lots of work to make it look good, without 1/2" of bondo it had on it.
(Some of the paint came off in huge chunks. the top of the fender came off as one piece, about 4" x 30 some inches long. You could still smell the chemicals in it.
Sufficed to say, the previous paint job, put on, to fool the next buyer, was absolutely terrible.)
I got to the point that I could not see any problems so I painted it with the SS paint. Same color.
For the past year I saw every little divot and dent, scratch and wave that I missed last year.
Being winter again, (in Phoenix, AZ) I tore into the body again and fixed as many of the flaws I missed last winter.
I have done a good body work job, this time (small details). Although when I primed the first time I saw a bunch of tiny problems, so I fixed them. I primed again a couple days ago. I can still see a couple of tiny flaws, but enough is enough. I am now ready for paint. Yesterday, I cut a couple small pieces of metal and painted them with the paints I had left over.
Which brings me to where I am now.... I plan to stay with the same color as the picture. It was factory Gold, so I am staying with it so the color matches the fender tag
