Please help with paint advice

[meyek91974]

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So, since buying our first Festiva and the first car my wife and I bought together, it's been driven but in the last week we have started buying parts as we're embarking on rehabbing the car.

I thought that if when we buy parts we take a few days to spray four or five shaker can layers of clear so they won't rust and would put a little pop in the job as opposed to just seeing parts. So, is the clear acrylic enamel gloss a good paint to use for this purpose?

Secondly, as I have removed the interior door panels and the back hatch panel to clean and do window repair there is a quarter inch thick black rubber adhesive around the perimeter of the hatch and door where the panels made contact. How do I remove this black sticky gummy quarter inch bead as I do not want to eat through the paint gloss at this time I'm not ready to paint and I cannot find something that will remove the black gummy?

Thanks anybody and everybody for your help

[FestYboy]

Xylene will remove the gum and not hurt the paint. Do this outside!!!!! The fumes are nasty.

[F3BZ]

i justb got done using duplicolor clear gloss over a small repainted piece. couple coats does ad a deeper shine to the paint. as for the butyl caulk bead on the doors, this isn't to hold the panels but to hold a heavy plastic vapor barrier sheet between the door cavity and the trim panel. if this plastic wasn't there, some PO musta removed it.