Do any of you remember the legend of why the surfaces of Plymouth Horizons and other vehicles of that era had their paint peel off. I remember a buddy had an eighties Oldsmobile, all of the surface or top of the car paint was peeling off...in sheets. GM had a mess of cars in this era...the reason? That was the equal rights for women era and GM put women on the finishing line of the paint factory. Their job was to apply anti wax metal surface cleaner to the bodies of the cars that came down the line. It was warm work and the women were wearing sleeveless t-shirts , they were also wear anti-perspirants of the type that inhibit sweating, the anti-perspirants were flaking off while they were rubbing the surface of the metal body just prior to sealer. The chemicals in the anti-perspirant did not jive with the chemicals in the primer and caused it to not seal with the metal, like silicone...It took them a couple of cycles to figure this out and they probably started doing the work with a robot or dipping like they did at V.W. Chevy 70's model pickups was just a major design flaw, like above and behind the headlight buckets of tri-five Chevies.
