Marked technology advances in resin chemistry and analytical methods lead toward increasingly higher solids content in automotive clearcoats.
Unfortunately for DuPont in the otherwise happy-days 1950s, the seminal attempt to formulate a 100%-solids automotive finish met an inglorious fate more akin to the demise of another icon of the era -- the Edsel -- than that of the ‘Vette, still zipping along in the early 21st century.