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Originally Posted by maninblack
It's absolutely a true statement and single stage does not look the same if you know what you're looking at. It's subtle but I can tell the difference nearly all of the time. And, yes, the very best shops use single stage for their early cars because it's expected in the marketplace. I'm a buyer of these cars - always looking for the best of the best - and an early non-metallic color in base/clear would raise serious eyebrows at the top of the market.
I don't disagree that modern multi-stage products are superior in many ways. They're just not correct.
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I completely understand what you are referring to with early single stage metallics, but we are now getting mostly into 356s than 911s but those can also be replicated by a knowledgeable painter with base clear. If you understand the reason why single stages look the way they do you can duplicate that with base clear. Im willing to bet most of those “very best” shops are super old school and that has more to do with it than it does being the best of the best. I can think of 3 spyder, 904/906, carrera restorers that use base clear off the top of my head.