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  • John H.
    Beyond Control Poster
    • December 1, 1997
    • 16513

    #16
    Re: C1 '58 Paint / Polish Questions

    All Corvettes were extensively polished/buffed after the final color oven, as the DuPont "Magic-Mirror" acrylic lacquer (same paint GM used on steel cars) didn't re-flow to the same gloss as steel cars, as the oven temperatures at Corvette were limited to 235*F-250*F due to the heat limitations of the fiberglass material. The final re-flow ovens in steel-bodied passenger car plants ran at 280*F-300*F, and full-body polishing wasn't required.

    Polishing/buffing at Corvette was highly operator-sensitive and was hardly a "repeatable" process, and the average Corvette paint finish was, as a result, nothing to write home about.

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