Removing aftermarket paint to get OG paint

[Pau]

Well, well,
just following thick green paint removal.

Decouraging because it has been a lot of work but the result is not what I expected. Anyway, having good meditation time doing it.

Then I tested passenger's door

and face

Interesting. So I kept on going on face lifting...

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Freedom for the Catalan Countries
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[70bus]

Glad you are sticking to it! Yes, it might not be what you'd hoped, but if lucky you will find something you can work with. And certainly better to get off all the old Bondo and know what lurks beneath!
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Craig K
70 Neunsitzer
65 Pritschenwagen
"If Von Dutch was alive, he'd walk in there with a pistol and shoot these people."
-Robert Williams

[Pau]

Thank you.

Today I spent 7 hours to do only the half of the lower part of the nose. It is very long and ungrateful. I got from this:

To this:

And you can see I didn't do much of the details. Sides/angles are tricky because red painting is thin. I will let the lower 10 cm. Repair has been done.

Pfff! Sometimes I think that if I was earning money instead of peeling the bus, I had enough money to let somebody else do it.

I start having a right arm like a single teenager .
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[67BygoneBug]

I've been working on my 67 Bug, and it would be great to get some of your professional opinions on whether the zenith blue is just faded or if it's primer. I posted two different photos below though with different lighting on them to help.

I used a bit of the Easy Off which worked to some degree with a fine steel wool pad, but certainly isn't easy! There are a few layers, with the top one being an attempt to match the zenith blue (unsuccessful, in my opinion), which is on top of a turquoise colour. I believe below that is the primer and then the OG paint, but am not 100%. The OG paint is in good condition however on the inside luckily!

[Pau]

Hello 67BygoneBug,
I can't give you a professional opinion, but I am doing the same to my '60 bus. If you are talking about your grey shadow on the driver's side, I wouldn't go further. If you look to my pictures, your one looks like the panel in front of the gas door (you see all layers). After that, you have a thin lay of black (I don't know what it is) and then metal.

I can't tell you if what I found is the same for every VW.

I hope it helps you.

Cheers.
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[_Kodiak]

I started experimenting with a small spot of Goof Off graffiti remover on my Doka. Really like the way it has a patina with the red rubbing off. Originally I was planning to make it as clean as possible and get back to the brilliant orange. But on second thoughts, maybe a patina would make the job easier without having to remove every bit of red.

I must have read 30 of 50 pages in this thread so wanted to share my experience and say thanks to all the advice, words, and considerations everyone has shared. Always appreciative of this community.

I’ll share more as I go.

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Sold: 1983.5 Westfalia - EJ22 “Kodiak”

[martyrg]

I have been looking at a way to strip the paint from my bus. The previous owner did an inexpensive (cheap) respray of the bus. I came across this: https://shopus.coopersstripclub.com/shop/stripping-packs/

Their videos look promising. "My Friend Pete" over at D.Y.I Auto School / SW Rod & Custom did a side by side compairison against Aircraft Stripper and Coopers. The Cooper's did much better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=145qkNioH6U Pete liked it, and he doesn't like anything!

What do you think?

[_Kodiak]

[_Kodiak]