[Buzz]

When I had my Vette, I kept the black paint nicely detailed and polished up. It always looked smooth and shiny but there was a fellow in my neighborhood with an older Camaro that was the darkest, blackest, glossiest black imaginable. I never could get my paint to look like that no matter what products and techniques I tried. When I spoke to him, he said it was because his car was painted with a simple, one part black paint and mine was base-clear. He postulated that the clearcoat helped to add depth and gloss, but detracted from the "blackness" and would never look as black as straight polished black paint.