Painting Over Serial Numbers Without Burying Them in Paint

mllud said:

Im going to be painting a three stage paint job. I have a 68 mustang with the serial numbers on the top of the fender skirts.
I buried them in primer and feather fill during the restoration process. I sanded them both back to metal and cleaned the numbers and letters out with a scribe. So the serial numbers are clean and easy to read with light primer over them.

My question is will the basecoat / intercoat clear and clear coat cover them back up and not be able to read them?

I would think they should show thru just like a defect does.
I think the reason I lost them before is from sanding the added layers of primer.
How well did your serial numbers show up after paint?
BC/CC or Three Stage paint jobs.

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mllud said:

horse sence
I think a window with a gold stripe to frame it would work. I want them visable. I would think this problem would come up more with the high solid paints we use now. Unless mine were just not stamped hard enough.
The autoworker was getting tired at the end of the shift. Can you imagine stamping serial numbers all day. It may have been done in a punch press changing a number each hit.
Mike

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