The Monster has been painted one time since the factory applied the yellow that's on the car.
With a razorblade on a scraper handle, I can literally push that repaint right off the factory finish, and if I'm careful, do it w/o damaging the finish underneath.
I don't paint cars, but I can. It seems that every 4-5 years for the last 4 decades, I'm faced with having to paint some project car. That goes to say that the instances where the posted dilemma actually occur are very rare. Specifically on this car, I don't want to have to go through the ordeal of a complete strip to bare metal if I don't have to, but conversely, there is no way in hell I'll cheese out on doing it if there is potential to bite me in the ass at some point in the future.
If I can get away w/ scraping the poorly applied top coat off the factory base and working from there up, it seems to me that I'll save a buttload of time (both in stripping it down, and working it back to "paintable").
With a razorblade on a scraper handle, I can literally push that repaint right off the factory finish, and if I'm careful, do it w/o damaging the finish underneath.
I don't paint cars, but I can. It seems that every 4-5 years for the last 4 decades, I'm faced with having to paint some project car. That goes to say that the instances where the posted dilemma actually occur are very rare. Specifically on this car, I don't want to have to go through the ordeal of a complete strip to bare metal if I don't have to, but conversely, there is no way in hell I'll cheese out on doing it if there is potential to bite me in the ass at some point in the future.
If I can get away w/ scraping the poorly applied top coat off the factory base and working from there up, it seems to me that I'll save a buttload of time (both in stripping it down, and working it back to "paintable").