factory paint

[rustynuts]

Today I sanded a test area on my BN1 down to bare metal and it has 6 coats of paint. Beginning from bare metal then black, red primer, white, blue, white then the previous owner painted it a pale yellow.
Was this the order that the factory originally used for a final colour of old english white or was the car blue? And why did they start with black as a base coat?

 

[Keoke]

Hi RN , to the best of my knowledge the base coat"Primer" was always close to our red oxide in color .Look up under the dash and see if there isn't one of those other colors present there that the later painting was not applied to.---Fwiw___Keoke

 

[Richard Dickinson]

It seems odd that you would have black over bare metal, unless you have a repair pannel that was e-coated or other- wise primed. I had my whole car stripped and e-coated so the whole thing will be black on bare metal.