I would appreciate any feedback on my plans to repaint my Pantera. The original primer and orange paint are on the car along with a layer of primer, a layer of orange paint and a layer of black. My goal is to repaint the car with some single stage black. I plan to track the car so I'm not looking for show car quality but I'd like it to look nice and be able to occasionally touch up any chipping or scratches.
I started scraping the car with a razor blade and it easily scrapes to the primer over the original paint. That primer and the original paint seem to be very well bonded and a significant amount of work to remove. Therefore, I plan to scrape everything down to that layer and sand it with 120. Then I was thinking a coat of epoxy primer, sand, high build primer, sand, and then shoot color.
The last car I painted I did in lacquer 30 years ago so I am hoping for suggestions on brands, what spray gun to buy, etc. Seems PPG DCC black gets good reviews but I'm open to anything.
Thanks for any guidance and suggestions.
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