[767Jockey]

First off, in full disclosure: This is not for my Cobra. My older (2005) motorhome has the paint basically burned off the crown area over the windshield. The Texas sun has just burned this area up. I'm not sure if this question violates site rules. If so, mods, please delete this. However, even though in this case it's for my motorhome, I believe this can help some guys who might be considering doing paint work on their Cobra's too.

Here we go with the situation and the question:

It appears that the base coat is mostly intact, the majority of the issue is with the clearcoat. However, I doubt the basecoat can be saved. My plan is this - sand with 800 grit until I have a uniform smooth surface. Sand again with 1000 grit to reduce sanding marks. Prime, spray basecoat, spray clearcoat, wet sand, polish and wax. I've got a full array of 3" and 6" random orbit polishers (Griots) as well as a 7" rotary buffing setup to take care of the final polishing, with lots of different grades of pads, compounds, waxes, etc on hand as well.

Questions:
- What primer would be best.
- What grit paper to get down to on the primer before I spray the basecoat.
- HVLP or LVLP gun for the basecoat? This is a small area, about 14 inches tall by 8 feet wide. I'll be using a 25 gallon compressor. Not ideal, I know but the area isn't that big. I want this to come out nice but it doesn't need to be perfect show quality.
- What size tip in the gun and what pressure at the gun to spray basecoat at?
- HVLP or LVLP gun for the clearcoat? Again, pressure and tip size?
- Lets say the base coat comes out with some orange peel. Do I wet sand the basecoat before I clearcoat it, or do I clearcoat right over the orange peeled basecoat and hope the clearcoat evens out visually the orange peel in the base coat, then wet sand the orange peel out of the clearcoat?

Again, I want this to look nice, but I don't need perfection. This area is 13 feet above the ground. It's not like anyone is going to get way up there to examine it closely. It needs to be clean and shiny, that's about it.

Hopefully the answers to this will help some Cobra guys thinking about painting their own cars too.