Plastic Bead blasting?

[Pantera]

I have not heard anyone say anything about plastic bead blasting on their cars. BAck in '86 I loaned a couple of vettes out to some guys to practice on when they were learning to use it and was more than pleased with the results. The cars came back with a light coat of dust on the interiors but nothing like when sand was used. In fact SS parts didn't need to be removed they came out polished like new. No residue in every crevice either. They bragged that they could take the paint down layer by layer if they wanted to! I had them leave traces of the factory primer so that I could sand it off myself. No warping of the panels either. Was there a downside to this? I still have a '73 L-82 Cpe. just the way it came back from them.

I was not trying to do a total restoration on them but just striping old paint and repainting a nice car to start with.

Is it still done anywhere?
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