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Subject:Re: Repainting my syncro another color
Date:Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:18:10 EDT

In a message dated 6/27/05 12:55:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
gronski@GMAIL.COM writes:

> My 1986 syncro is currently painted dark brown (for you Canadian's
> think "National Park Brown"

that's UPS truck brown..or more correctly "merion brown".

anyway, its doable..but ...
PREP is KEY!!!!
if the surface isnt properly prepped, then paint will peel.   i parted out a
van that had a color change..  cheap earl shieb job.  everything was masked
off, not removed, and there was peeling and orangepeel, runs. fisheyes
everywhere.. also it looked like crap in the doorjambs where it was the original
color..

  anyway, surface prep is key.

chris