I gave paintscratch.com a try and here's what knowledge I gained from
that experience.

If you are absolutely sure that your paint is original, you might be OK
with the results. If you are unsure of the history of the van, beware!
What happened to me was what I thought was original paint and some
touch up with the same paint turned out to be a wrong assumption.
Lacquer is what was used originally and that is what paintscratch
offers. But enamel is what most body shops like to use. Lacquer
destroys enamel and makes it look like the wrinkles on a old geezer.
NOT GOOD! Thanks to some really crappy auto body shops out there, many
vans like mine have both types of paint and cannot go back to the
original lacquer finish. Only choice is enamel, from what I understand.
Bottom line is don't waste you money on paintscratch (or any
lacquer-based paint) if you think the area you want to paint is enamel.
Wish I would have know that earlier! Now, who was the PO who allow some
bozo to spray enamel on the original lacquer of my van? I am going to
hunt you down and rub your nose in my bad paint job! :-o

PS The paintscratch paint matched neither my original finish nor the
enamel finish. What's with that?

Keith O.
90 Westy Syncro "VikingWagen"
Past VeeDubs in the family
1984 Westy "Brownie"
1980 PU diesel
1979 Rabbit
1963? 23 window Splitty
1965 Bus
1969 Bus
1959 Bug

> Date:    Thu, 1 Mar 2007 15:58:36 EST
> From:    JordanVw@AOL.COM
> Subject: Re: Remving the camping equipment and a source for paint
>
> In a message dated 2/28/07 7:00:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> bfeddish@NETREACH.NET writes:
>
>
>> Also, someone once posted a place that sells little spray cans of
>> matching
>> paint for the Vanagons and they even had Assuan Brown. Does anybody
>> have
>> that link?
>>
>>
>
> paintscratch.com
>
> chris