Re: [alfa] clear coat over AR530 red

["Dean W. Cains" <dwc@xxxxxx>]

Hi Michael:

Any automotive paint vendor should be able to match your paint, although 
you're going to have to buy a lot more than a 1 oz. touch-up bottle.  Or, 
if you'd also like some spray paint to repair your brake fluid damaged 
inner fender, contact Tower Paint for custom-filled spray cans, for ~$20 
for 16 oz., and they can supply the brush-on touch-up for chips at the same 
time.

http://www.towerpaint.com/index2.html

I don't know how much damage you've got, but for touch up of reasonable 
chips and scratches I use a finishing product called Langka, and it's 
pretty amazing.  Most of what the manufacturer claims is true, and you 
don't need any special skills.  It's well worth the $20.

http://www.langka.com/nfhow.htm

Regards,

Dean
Lutz, FL
'74 & '87 Spider Veloce's


At 08:23 PM 7/11/2004, you wrote:

> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 18:05:00 -0400
> From: Michael Tiefenback <tiefenback@domain.elided>
> Subject: [alfa] clear coat over AR530 red
>
> Ray Manners wrote:
>
>
>      Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:47:27 -0400
>      From: "Ray Manners" <rmanners@domain.elided>
>      Subject: [alfa] Clear Coat on Alfa Red Paint?
>      Did my car originally roll from the factory with a Clear-Coat
>      over the Red
>      Paint? Original paint is Alfa Red (Rosso Alfa- AR 530).
>
> My 1986 AR530 Spider seems not to have a clear-coat.  I unfortunately
> flaked some of the paint off when a miter-box saw fell from a shelf and
> scratched the fender on the way down, and there no sign of anything but
> red paint layers.
>
> You have no idea how long it takes for something like that to fall two
> feet and how it feels to have your hands frozen in position until
> impact.  Or I hope you don't.  Anyone who does,  have you found a good
> source for repair touchup paint for this AR530?  Please?  I don't need
> much, but I do need it.  I also need it for the area in the engine
> compartment where brake fluid was let bleed onto the inner fender in
> front of the brake/clutch master cylinders behind the air box,
> blistering the paint.
>
> Michael
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