Austin Healey 3000 hard top painting issue

[Mattlan]

Colleague at work and I were chatting this morning and he let slip that he has both an E type and an Austin Healey 3000 ( and a VW Camper van!) nice garage! However, restoration on the Healey has slowed down as he has aquired an original hard top for it but is struggling to find a suitable primer that will sit with what he thinks is fibreglass....anyone shed some light on to what he could use, make me look good etc etc

Thanks

[SV8Predator]

The first primer onto GRP has to be an etch, but other than that any modern paint system will have a process for that material. I'd be a bit suspect of the bodyshop doing the job if they didn't know how to paint glassfibre!

[RichB]

Crikey, any bodyshop used to dealing with TVR and Lotus cars should be able to do this in a jiffy.