[Healeys] Did iridescent colours originally have clear coat over them?

[Jean Caron]

Andy: I worked briefly in a bodyshop in the early 1970's and at that time, in Canada at least, no one ever used clear coat, I don't think it existed then. 
While the clear coat is there to make the paint look shinier it is also there to protect the paint from scratches, often you could have minor scratches and you can easily get them buffed without disturbing the base coat, you won't be able to do that without the clear coat. You cannot get lacquer in many places now at least in North America, in Canada most places spray waterborne paint. I wonder if the base paint on Austin-Healeys was enamel instead of lacquer. I had a 1969 E-Type at one point and it was lacquer but that was a few years after the Austin-Healey was off production.

Jean 


Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 02:18:02 -0800
From: bce257 at yahoo.co.nz
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: [Healeys] Did iridescent colours originally have clear coat over	them?

Hi Guys,
 
Well I'm getting close to the final painting of 40559 and have decided I don't like the modern basecoat/clearcoat look and now want to refinish it in lacquer for a more original non-sparkly appearance.
 
Does anyone know if the original Healey Blue cars were top-coated in clear lacquer over the "iridescent"? What about on the frame and inner panels? 
 
Is there a recommended source for original formula paints in these modern two pack times?
 
Andy.

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