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No bare metal - it's overpainting the original paint so a good clean, sugar soap and a scotch pad. I'm trying to find a good enamel paint here in France but drawing a blank, however I have just watched a video of a guy who repainted his aluminium sided motorhome using smooth hammerite and it...

So I am currently restoring a 1983 Rapido and the van was constructed from sheets of (very thin) textured aluminium which, as you can imagine, after 42 years are looking a bit shabby. I don't want to do any more damage to it so am thinking that I can hand paint it especially as with a matt...