Thanx, Ron, but does your car (whatshis name?) LOOK like he/she has a clear coat? I can "clearly (ahem)" see applying a c-coat to a light-ish color, to produce some depth, but H's enamel paint has been polished-out, in the past 15 years, til the pigment's almost gone. I've been applying Turtle Wax's "dye-polish" for the past couple years--not bad stuff, really, but you gotta use PLASTIC GLOVES, when you apply it! I'm a claims adjuster (not a chiropractor), & I look-at clear coats, clinically, of varying quality, every day--similarly, I appreciate the look of real New-Old-Stock (matte-finish) , instead of "Show Quality", chrome-work. I also like to see well maintained 4-dr sedans, and stationwagons, rather than Letter cars, and high-dollar NON-driven "queens". You're right, tho; clear-coat DON'T look like straight-paint--it's shinier & deeper, & obvious, --in most instances--it's ALSO what I see on auction-cars, so, I guess that I just have "mental-problems" with the perception of clear-coatings, (and color-changes) on old cars. Neil
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