How best to remove painted pin strip names and symbols

[rhino 2]

Love it! Good-comeback! :clapping: I never thought of it that way (yes! I do have my seat s covered in my car) now I'll laugh everytime I ride in my car.. thinking of your commit!

Ronnie

Yea....My Old Man would buy a new car and drive it right to Rayco and have the seats coved in plastic ......And when he traded it in the first thing the dealer would do is to rip it off.....So those hot sticky and cold crunchy seats are imbedded in my memory [Ass].:gah:.

 

[hogcowboy]

I bought a used 62 Cadillac once that had 120,000+ miles and was headed to the junk yard for $25. I rebuilt the engine and I put another 100,000+ miles on it. But the seats when I first got had that plastic crap on them so I removed it and except for a few wear marks on the door window ledge, I had a brand new Cadillac. Was a damn tank too. Some woman backed out of her parking spot once and ran into my bumper. Zero damage on me but she had to call for a tow because she pushed her rear paneling into the rear tire making it unmovable. I laughed as I drove away.

 

[CrystalPistol]

Thanks everyone. I chickened out on trying the chemical methods, but thanks for the input. I found a local pinstriper, Painter John, here in Jacksonville, Fl. He carefully used 1,000 grit wet sand paper and two compounds, to remove the names from the trunk, then polished the areas. There are no shadows visible (you can not tell they were ever there)—a really great, if expensive job. Anyway, no one calls me Joe anymore.

I’m going to wait until after Christmas to see if I can tolerate the graphics. If not, he’ll take them off too.

Again, thanks for the help and the Welcome,

Bill P

Welcome! … :wave4:

… Glad it worked out for you Joe, definitely the safest way, but I have friends who swear by the "Easy Off" oven cleaner … but I'd not try it on mine either.

Yea....My Old Man would buy a new car and drive it right to Rayco and have the seats coved in plastic ......And when he traded it in the first thing the dealer would do is to rip it off.....So those hot sticky and cold crunchy seats are imbedded in my memory [Ass].:gah:.

But then, on the other hand, was that 1950 Ford Custom Buisness Coupe I looked at in Georgia, dark blue almost black, Fenton cast iron headers, Edelbrock heads on the F-head V-8 with two '97s on a Offenhauser intake, 3 on the tree & OD, twin Smithy's glasspacks, moons & rings, nice stance, and clear plastic still on new looking OEM seats. Suweet.