Classic muscle... 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner

[Mike Phillips]

The objective for this detail was to revive the paint. The vehicle was painted before the current owner purchased it in 1984.
The vehicle was stored for 20 years. The engine was rebuilt, some items freshened up and it was back on the road this July.

The owner mentioned it was painted with IMRON paint... Being 35, I had never heard of this. Single stage, sure, but not imron.

A quick search on Autogeek, 4 results for threads talking about how to polish this kind of paint came up.

Imron paint buffs up REAL NICE.

Nice work on the classic muscle car. I love the aluminum slotted mags...


I see the pictures are hosted on Photobucket, I hope they don't disappear some day...

[Pats300zx]

Beautiful job on the Roadrunner ! My father used to work for Dupont and I remember when Imron was first released and was all the rage. My father planned to paint our 1964 Rambler with it but I got into an accident before he had the chance to lol. Imron paint is hard as nails.

[JeffsRealm]

Very awesome, definitely takes me back. The older paint job and details on this are outstanding.

Wowie!!! amazing old road-runner!!! Nice work, and awesome that you did your homework on AGO. I'm 49 and do not know what IMRON paint is...

Imron was "THE" black paint in the 80's. I had a Cuda repainted with this as it was originally black with the white hockey stick 340 stripe. Now days you see a lot of black cars that just shine and show off the great black with the clear coats on top. Back then Imron was the only way to get this wet gloss black look. Oh it was expensive too. If I remember $400 a gallon back then. Oh yeah and we waxed it with good old turtle wax. We didn't really have sealants or Sauveran waxes. We went with what we had. Tough paint, I mean tough. So the light swirls on this would probably have been years of abuse and machine washes and turtle waxes.

[briarpatch]

Imron is an early polyurethane paint. It was tough as nails and hard to lay down correctly and lethal vapors. When i restored my 65 El Camino I painted the frame with it.

Imron was all the rage when it came out...i'm old enough to remember it

[DetailKitty]

Damn dude! That black looks like liquid. Nice job!

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Imron paint buffs up REAL NICE.

Nice work on the classic muscle car. I love the aluminum slotted mags...


I see the pictures are hosted on Photobucket, I hope they don't disappear some day...

Wow, a reply by Mike P... I made the big time !
I have the photos on my phone, and 2 different flash drives. I am working on an imgur account.
Thanks for the kind words !!

And to all others, thank you for your replies and the mopar talk.
This is great !!

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

finally uploaded a few pictures from the dslr camera...









polishing pad results:


defects @ tape line:


results with cutting pad:

[damaged442]

Great work on a nice ride!

[Sizzle Chest]

Very nice! Great!!!

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

thanks guys !!