[Brother Hesekiel]

My advise is that while you can do a lot of prep work yourself, as you have been doing, I would not dare to learn how to paint a car on the very car you love and care about. Find a painter you trust, discuss with him your prep work, and invest a few hundred dollars in a pro doing the actual shooing.

"Closer to original" is a rather arbitrary term. Unfortunately, we don't have the materials that were used in the day anymore available to us. And according to the Judging Guidelines, the fenders and splash aprons were dipped into black enamel and then baked, whereas the body was painted with nitro-cellulose laquer. In plain English, even an all black Model A had different paint on body and fenders.

I would just have a very close look to what Marco did with his fine points '30 Roadster. I would use a quality single stage paint (under NO circumstances use base/clear), and colorsand it with 2000 right from the start, polish it by hand with Mother's chrome polish 'til you have an 80% gloss, then have a pro polish it to a high luster. The cowl and area under the rear fender will not be polished.