I have a white 91 fbird that was manufactured at Van Nuys. The paint is in very good condition except for the spots that are flaking. There are two spots on the hood about an inch in diameter each. I was wondering if I take some old newspaper, cut out the pattern of the size of the hole, and use some spray paint if I could cover the hole decently without it looking like crap. It is my dad's idea but I've been thinking about it for a while now. Just want some opinions. Thanks

 

You could, but where it's peeled in those areas, it'll probably peel more around the edges. Here's a post that gives pretty good instructions:
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--Rich

 

If you do use newspaper like that you will leave tape lines, which i suppose you could sand. Personally for touch up jobs I use masking tape, but I roll it over onto intself so it has a rounded edge, good results, no tape mark.

 

a buddy of mine did that on his rs. he was washing his car one day and flakes of paint just flew off his hood. He taped it up and spray painted it with rustoleum. I couldn't tell when i just drove past him, but it was obvious up close. His car was teal green, so it wasn't very easy to find a match in a spray paint, but white would be easier. It was a good temporary solution, but the thing to remember is that it will probably start happening in other spots on the car.

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91 rs, convertible, K&N, Edelbrock open element cleaner, 3.73, B&M mega-shifter, goodmark cowl-induction hood

 

The condition (paint flaking, peeling, coming off in sheets...) is known as DELAMINATION. Caused by defective paint systems used by GM (Chrysler too) over several years (80s-90s). All GM cars were eligible for FREE paint jobs for a period of 5 years (later extened to 6 years) under a warranty campaign due to the defect. The funny thing is that the primer/sealer coat is the best around...its the basecoat and clearcoat that are bad. The basecoat separates from the primer and it starts to peel. Usually starting at the horizontal surfaces (hood, roof...) first, eventually it will peel from other locations and in larger sections. The only thing to do is strip off all paint on the metal parts of the car. Even if it seems like the paint is ok on some panels, don't even think about sanding and painting over any paint. It will all eventually comeoff and take the new finish with it. My 92 T/A was severely delaminated when I bought her. Body perfect...no rust (except very minor surface rust in a few places where the paint was peeling. I stripped the rest of the paint off this last week and hand primered the car to fight rust until I get the chance to paint her. I do have some advice on how to get the paint off...I saved hours of sanding by using a single edge razor blade and holder to peel off the old paint. In alot of places it came off easily in strips and left the primer coat unharmed. In the places where it was still sticking well...I used some BIX heavy duty stripper from Home Depot. 6 Bucks a quart (mine needed two because I had a replacement hood that had good paint but bad clearcoat that I wanted to strip too. The BIX wasn't strong enough to get the clear/base and the primer/sealer and after 1 application the remaining paint was lifted enough to easily peel with the blade. I'll get some before/during/after pix together and up on my site...



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