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Whoa... he found an unopened can of original paint to finish it off? That's just incredible, especially since it was a one-year color. What a story! That said, I hope it gets some mileage, and doesn't spend all its time as a display piece!
the paint from yesteryear is around BUT what we do in the trade is we do a spray out on a paint card - using what ever would have been the under coatings and then do a computer match to today paint products - everything has been changed from the thinners to the guns that shoot the paint and all of it - so that is what is done today
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Brendan Mier's 1949 FL Panhead
