brighad wrote:I ok with imperfections, they would have come out from the factory like that. All my steel is in good shape, basicly just blasted off the old paint. The base clear will keep the shine longer than the enamil paints.
I agree 100% on the longevity of the shine. I did not clear my R120 and in five years the paint went dullish and would not hold a polish. The run-off water when I washed the truck looked like a health drink. The PPG paint held really well and was tough.
IH were not very good a original paint. I have had 14 IH pickups and some of them were panted after assembly. There was bare metal with a little overspray between the box and cab. My friend worked for IHC Canada and he suggested it was common for the factory to take truck out of the finished/storage yard and drive the trucks into the paint shop and have a colour change to fill an order. I bought one very low mileage R120. It had been in storage for 50 years and at $250 I thought it was a good deal. The original colour was IHC Cascade light blue where the "sun don't shine" and white fade in the light.. My "R" crewcab had a dealer colour change from what I think might have been IH Gulfstream to an IH Canyon red. A few decades in the high mountain sunshine and the cab is mostly pink.
Are we having fun yet? It is too early for me to try and settle on a colour for the crewcab. I will save that stress for much later. I can tell you, for sure, the colour will not be green.