joyriide1113
There is no cure!
I made sure to ask about that as I know they used laquer back then. The owner said that the paint was the only part of the car not original or factory. Someone else also commented on how the steering wheel wasn't original either, so I don't know. You know how some people like to over inflate their things.
The base coat/clear coat paint isn't original on a 1967. Corvette didn't use BC/CC until 1981 and then only the cars built in KY. The St. Louis cars were still single stage lacquer. As dr_detail pointed out, the reproduction items do keep it from being truly original.
So, what he has is a great, rare, beautiful, restored vehicle. I think I could live with that.
The BC/CC paint is a great improvement over the factory paint at that time, but it does keep the car from being a truly original one.
I can't speak for his reasoning about the Cobra, but if it was truly original, the value is much greater than if any restoration has been done.
The restored cars are usually better than the way they came from the factory, but that's not the way the collectors look at them.
One other problem with restorations is the number of fakes that get put out. That seems to happen with a lot of collectibles, not just cars.
The car you did looks great and the fact that it has BC/CC rather than the original paint would make it better in my eyes.
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