My biggest blunder was not realizing how much things have changed with paint in the past 20 years...
Back then I used lacquer primer and could get ANY body shop to shoot the top coat which was usually Centauri. Fast forward 20 years and I'm at it again. Went down and bought some lacquer primer and did it the way I used to but now no one wants to touch it because of the lacquer primer.
Okay fine, I'll use lacquer for a top coat then...BUT no one around here knows how to shoot lacquer anymore!!!
I guess we all know the "Why" you "can't" use a catylazed paint over lacquer primer but my bro had his Camaro done like that about 21 years ago and it still looks just as good now as it did then.
Good luck trying to convince a "knowledgable" painter that a modern two part paint will work just fine over lacquer given the way we use some of these cars now a days because after all he is the "expert" and I don't know jack sheit.
Ya I'm a little frustrated.
