R+M Lacquer

[Nova Jed]

A family member has a whole lot of the R+M Lacquer tints, scale and formula books. Would it be worth it to restore a car in all lacquer? He has most of the various tints to do a lot of popular colors. I have heard that you can topcoat the lacquer with a good quality urathane clear, but is the undercoat going to last? It's kind of an old meets new and since body shops can't spray lacquer, would it be worth getting involved with by a do-it-yourselfer. What I mean by all of this is durability if you are going to drive the car? I know Lacquer isn't the best on color match, unless you do a whole job and even when you are done doing enough coats of it, it may be a shade off. Has anyone considered doing an all lacquer job? I know it's a crazy question!

[BARRY]

hi i am a painter i have worked with laquer it is perfect match for a original painted gm cars RM LACQUER and yes it will work great with clear //original base clear on chrysler cars where done that way/// WHEN BASE CLEAR// first came out

[Nova Jed]

How long would it last? If applied correctly? Process?

[farone]

There should be no problem with the color coat lasting.... The problem is adheasion between the lacquer and urethane clear. There is a good chance that the clear could peel. That used to be an accepted procedure, but the newer products are much more durable....

[Schonyenko2]

Frank is correct. Without correct prep work, and allowing the laquer to breath out the solvents, you may have an adhesion issue, or undercoat swelling. If you're going to shoot laquer, shoot it on correctly, block it, and buff up the shine. I doubt you're going to be in VOC compliance, and unless you have some experience with it, I'd stay with a bc/cc system. Most people who have little experience with laquer wind up with a dry, rough paint job. But, good luck.

[BARRY]

HI i painted a winter beater and drove the car for three years painted lacqer with urathane clear if you want to use lacqer on a show car paint it then clear it with ///HOUSE of colouers clear/// IT IS A LACQER CLEAR

[Nova Jed]

Well, I think what I am getting at here is that I have a chance to get all of these tints for what it would cost me just for the material for one paint job. I can get a lot more colors by buying the tints from him and the scale and tint book. Debating on wether or not it's gonna be worth my $ and the storage of a hundred +/- gallons of tints. I know lacquer is a lot of work! Twice to three times as labor intensive. Not my worry because I'm a do it yourselfer. He told me that the clear that he has has some sort of UV protectant in it. No clue on that though. I have seen a car or two out in the show field that had a lacquer job done on it and you couldn't tell the difference between that and a urathane job. Take a look at my two cars in the member gallery. I did both of those paint jobs at home!

[GeorgeLyons]

Does your uncle have any new unopened R-M factory pack pints or quarts of lacquer (factory already mixed colors) ? I am interested in some for a display I have.

[Nova Jed]

George, I think the only factory pack he had was for a 66 Vette and that he got from Stoudts Corvettes. But that was like 20+ yrs ago. He sold that with the car. But I think that's all he ever had and he used to own his own body shop. You want the stuff that was packed from the GM paint vats correct?

[L78M22Rag]

Is there somewhere a guy can get enough Garnet Red laquer to touch-up a quarter panel? I'm helping my nephew fix-up an original survivor (occasional driver) Camaro? Please PM or email me at [email protected]

Thanks!