Paint ban --- appears not! - EU

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John Larkin

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FIVA (Federation Internationale Vehicules Anciens) have recently published an interesting report on the scale (i.e votes in politician-speak) of the historic vehicle movement in the EU. I quote one section from the FIVA report:-

By working in conjunction with the EU, FIVA’s work has resulted in some clear recognition for the historic vehicle movement, and not always in respect of road usage. Recent examples include: A derogation in the Directive imposing a general ban on paints high in Volatile Organic Compounds to allow the continued sale of small volumes of correct paints to ensure visual authenticity of vehicles even after repair and re-spraying.

It appears that we will after all be able to get good old-fashioned paint for our cars.

By the way, the historic vehicle movement employs 55,000 people in the EU and generates a turnover of €16 billion annually. Club memberships total 786,000. Maybe the politicians will start to take notice of us!


John Larkin.
 
Plus of course a lot of the members will be extremely rich, owning historic Ferrari's etc, which of course need repairing from time to time.

I've started stock piling paint now, just in case, and before the prices sky rocket. Its quite cheap on ebay !
 
The report covered just under 2 million historic vehicles, 78% of which are worth less than €15,000 (about £10,000), and 16% of which were worth between that and €35,000 (about £24,000), with 6% of vehicles above that value.

I think that the FIVA report is very fair representation of classic car owners within the EU, some of whom happen to be rich and who preserve and restore cars that most of us could not afford to maintain.

John Larkin
 
Car paint on E Bay - what's the name to look it up under ?
Seems the restrictions apply to manafacture of paint materials after 1/1/07 , not the sale , so old stock material can still be sold
I've just read this somewhere
 
Depends what type your looking for, I've been looking at 2 pack recently, so searched for "2k paint" but also found results under "cellulose paint" also try This link to one of the decent ebay stores.
 
Are you spraying 2 pack at home or have you got proper facilities ?
You have to wonder if spraying the odd wing occasionally is going to damage your health significantly
However a friend was telling me of someone who worked refurbishing alloy wheels and died of isocyanate poisoning
 
I've got the air-fed gear etc, so am safe, but only spray the odd bit here and there, maybe a full car once every 5 years. 98% I spray cellulose anyway which is a lot safer.

I was talking to mate at work, and one of his friends died due to paint poisoning, he was however a professional sprayer doing it day-in day-out with nothing more than a paper dust mask !

Its not worth taking those sort of risks, I need to stay alive at least long enough to build all the projects I have planned !! :)
 
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