RSA_27149

I'm looking at a longhood...a 71' to be exact. All original parts, matching vins, paint, no body work, etc. The only hang up I have is that the hood and bumper were resprayed. It's quality work and the owner has photo documentations and bills that shows that it was not due to a collision. Apparently, he was driving on the 405 and a construction truck dropped some debris and caused a few large noticeable paint chips.

How does this affect value? I wouldn't call this a museum piece, but certainly not a driver either. I know that this is subjective, but just looking for people's opinions.

hamah

I don't know. If the respray is of good quality and not due to collision and the car is not to be entered in Concours I wouldn't even think twice about it.

whalebird

There are few air cooled cars that have all their original paint - especially early ones. I would think that no collision damage and mostly original equipment would be attractive in an early car and some touch up would be a small issue.

rusnak

The new paints are so good, they blow the original paint away. I think a bad re-paint, that was sprayed over the original vs. sprayed on a primered bare metal panel, would degrade value. A concours paint job to me would be one that duplicates the baking process on a bare metal chassis.

GothingNC

I'd rather have a decent repainted 911 then one with the faded oxidized/chipped paint.

John

MUSSBERGER

You answered you own question." It"s not a museum piece." If you didn't know about it could you tell it had paint work on inspection? If so then it would effect value. If not?....................

RSA_27149

Thanks for the input guys.

The original paint is still in great shape. It's glossy with some very minor bubbling on the bottom corner edge of the rear window. (it's so minor that some touchup paint is all it needs)

Yeah, I wouldn't have been able to tell that the hood has been painted, though it could have been too perfect. Color match is exact under the sun. The hood was actually stripped to bare metal now that I'm seeing more of the process photos.

ricster

For a 71 not to have had some paintwork would be rare in of itself. As someone earlier said, if its done nicely, no harm no foul.

TT Oversteer

Good luck finding a forty year old car that is rust free with good original paint and no paintwork. If you do it's probably been sitting unused or in a museum. Are you going to drive this car? At this point in time I think there are restored longhoods, junk longhoods, and a very few original, well preserved, $$$$$$ longhoods.

Ed Hughes

I'd be way more concerned about the bubbling. As minor as it seems, it is just the only spot you can see. I'd bet there's more that you cannot see.

mck911

If you can see "some" there is definitely more. If you can see none, there is likely some, somewhere...

I've just taken down a 74 to bare metal, primed and resprayed the original color. There were no signs anywhere but when we took the car down we found a small spot in one of the headlight buckets. Easy fix but it was not visible whatsoever. Pretty darn good for a 74...