I helped a buddy restore a '67 Corvette roadster. With recommendation of a painting guru who later put the final finish on the body we used expensive for the time aircraft quality finish remover. We lay cardboard all around the perimeter of the body and started applying this goop with a 6" natural fiber paint brush, pouring it on and spreading it around. We knew there had been some repaints over the years and after at least a week of successive applications found that it had been repainted at least four times without a stripping. We scraped the paint off with large putty knifes that we actually put a bit of an edge on and after we were done, we should have weighed the pile of paint we took off, we estimated it at over 30lbs, it filled a standard garbage can. That stripper took it right down to pink fiberglass, then we found that the entire front clip had been replaced. It was a lot of work but turned out excellent, I still kick myself for not taking a 2nd mortgage out on our house to pay the $12K he offered it to me for. I was the first to drive it after completion and it was probably one of the best driving experiences of my life, they were special cars and '67 was the best year IMO, nothing like that combination of gearing and 350HP 327. It did have the fenders already cut for radials, which ruined it for the purists but radials really helped the car, Marina Blue...
