Stripping without polishing?

[Valacidor]

My '76 Overlander Int. has a very bad case of "sunburn", but the metal where the clear coat is completely off is pretty shiny (except for the for the end caps).
If I just strip it, will it hurt the metal If I don't polish it for a year or so? I'm really not excited about polishing all the time after helping my buddy polish his vintage airplane. I am taking a trip to AK this summer and don't want to polish everything and then replace panels that might get rock dings and have to start over. I am pretty sure I will replace some panels after I get back anyway,so don't want to do those especially.
Does anyone else not polish after stripping, or just leave the sunburn and clear coat alone?
Thanks for answering a lazy old man.
Tom J

[reinergirl]

A great many people on this forum have stripped the clearcoat and not polished. You won't hurt the metal, for instance I have a 1963 trailer that was never clear coated. I have recently just polished it....if 50 odd years didn't hurt my trailer, one year is not going to harm yours!

Strip it and leave it.....it will look way better than the current sunburn IMHO

[Valacidor]

Thanks reinergirl,
i really dislike that half-peeled look.
Nice looking horse, by the way.
Tom J

[reinergirl]

Thanks He's my reining horse (thus my name) .

Good luck stripping , I really like Citrastrip, but you need to keep it wet and leave it alone for at least 5 hours, worked wonders on my layers of interior paint. Covering it with plastic helps..... It needs time to work .

[Garretsonm]

How would I keep the Citristrip wet? And plastic?

[n2916s]

I stripped the front and rear end caps on mine because of "male pattern baldness" and then shined them up with some Meguiars aluminum polish. Looks pretty good and involved minimal effort.

Sooner or later I will fork over the big bucks to get it stripped and plastikoted but until then, it is what it is...

Mike