I'm going to be looking at an Aston Martin DB4 soon, and the owner wants the paint finished to Concours d'Elegance standards.
Does anyone know what the judges take into account with the paint finishes originality!
For eg, the DB4 will have been finished in either acrylic lacquer or nitrocellulose laquer.
Is the actual product used, brought into accountfor judging, or just the quality of the overall finish!
TIA.
esprit,
Oct 6, 5:02am
Generally quality of overall finish. Concours is about "better than factory", every little bit being as good as it can be. The appearance (colour) should be the original one, but as long as the car is visually identical to the original (and better in finish) that's concours.
socram,
Oct 6, 5:49am
Agree.Lovely car!
grangies,
Oct 6, 5:58am
Cheers.
That's the answer I was hoping for.
Rather than being expected to source every nut and bolt, and paint product from the original factory suppliers. LOL.
rob_man,
Oct 6, 7:06am
It's probable that a lacquer finish would be an advantage, there's a certain look a good lacquer job has that a 2 pack can't emulate.
grangies,
Dec 12, 6:07am
Indeed. Lacquer certainly has that edge when it comes to flatness.
2k clear always seems to have that over and above look.
As in 2k clear looks separate from the color like a sheet of glass on top.
Where as lacquer always seems to have that combined look from both colour and clear.
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