The Volvo 740 project came as a challenge- A zero-rust and no frame-damage chassis from California was to have the car completely stripped to bare metal and to do a complete multi-base coat layer and highest quality paint and clear coat finish, to produce a factory level paint job.
The Volvo factory paint is very strong and refused to come off with paint remover, 4 different types of paint removes were tried. The last resort was to sand it all down to metal by hand. The car also proved itself to be painted by hand, not by robots, due to 12 spots where over spray was counted.
We got the expensive clear coat for the car, extra hard and did a test-spray on another car’s hood and it was perfect with no orange peel what so ever.
Spraying the engine bay was a challenge with so many curves in all locations.
