Body work question...

[jplinville]

I picked up some replacement body parts for the wife's truck today...found a fresh truck from Oklahoma in a salvage yard in Covington, KY. Not a lick of rust on the doors or hood.

The problem is...the parts are red, and I need them to not be red...LOL

I'm fine having the entire truck in primer...painting it is not a priority. I would have no problem keeping it in grey primer, and touching it up as the years go on.

Here's my question...if the paint is good, just dull, can I clean it up and spray primer on and call it good, or do I really need to strip the old paint, then primer.

It will likely be a few years before I paint it back to it's original Ford Blue Regatta Metallic and White...it was a two tone.

The doors are power, and the original are manual...odd for an XLT Lariat package, but that's how it was built. What are the chances that Ford ran the wiring for power doors and just put manual doors on it??