Engine Punk

My C15D - Mighty Whitey - looks like a Friesian cow at the moment, thanks to flaking paint on (or rather off) the new bonnet. It doesn't look like I'd keyed the black primer coat sufficiently when I applied the grey primer and white paint. I used the remains of the cellulose paint with which I'd sprayed the van several years previously (well, have you seen the cost of it nowadays?) and reckon the paint had passed its shelf life. Anyway, what's flaked off has flaked off and I'm encouraging the rest of it to come off with a small knife. It's laborious but doesn't harm what's underneath as much as sanding. It also gives the sort of surface the "shabby chic" VW boys and girls like to have on their old vans. Personally I'd like my van to be painted properly. I recently fell into conversation with someone while I was turning up at a campsite in the old fun bus. "That's an old van," he said. "Have you had any trouble with t...