The original plan with ASC from what I been told they had intentions to repaint them as they felt the Buick paint jobs would reflect badly on ASC...it was because of this they selected certain ones on the assembly line to become GNXs....based I believe on ones that got better paint than some. The GNX project was pretty much rushed so they did not repaint the cars...
They do say lacquer on the body plate...I am getting a WAE4 tomorrow and I remember the owner telliong me it said lacquer on it....as he had to prove it to the body shop./
Again what I say above is based on what I been told by others way back when...
Regardless of what Buick sprayed on the cars they did a very poor job with black paint.......I have owned some very nice low mielage examples that huge areas would be dull or have excessive orange peal in it. Buick did have an inner memo to dealers explaining about the paint issues mainly based on the 1986 models.
sorry not more help than that.
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There's no way ASC or anyone could have possibly been pulling them off the line for conversion based on paint quality. Every car was ordered with specific options and very few random gns would have had the exact correct options that they needed for GNX conversion. I just don't see how it could happen. Now, double checking cars that were destined to be a GNX, maybe rejecting one or 2 tubs over paint quality, is possible. Eery single car that goes down an assembly line is ordered by somebody, they don't just build random cars and ship them out. Not to start a pissing match but it couldnt happen that way.