85fortheDrive

After some deliberation and great input from some board members here, we went ahead with a local body shop guy who came with very good grapevine reviews.

He had the car for two weeks and took some photos of the process. Apparently, the yellow stuff is zinc chromate, which he said was necessary in places for adhesion. I bought some new taillights as well, which the guy installed.

The results appear (at first glance, at twilight) to be pretty awesome. All I need is a little sunshine to get some final result pics. I hope the old boy feels as good as he looks. Still plenty of TLC work to do 'neath the hood.

icsmike

When I did mine I jammed everything so there would be no lines. I took off all the trim, mirrors, hood, fenders, doors, hatch a looot of work. I spent a shatload in broken trim and roten robber though.

perrys4

So your painter is leaving on the side moldings and the front and rear covers? Do you know if he is planning on masking the black strip between the covers or if he is painting over it?

85fortheDrive

I should be clear that he did not do a full new repaint. He worked back down through what we found to be a second coat of paint, evened that coat out, and then applied four clear coats.

I know he did not remove the side strips. But in fairness, he never advertised this as a full repaint. It is my poor descriptions that lead to that confusion.

BTW Perry, have you gotten your smile back about your shark?

ceedee

how much do you pay for this?

85fortheDrive

$2500

Waiting for some true sunlight and the snow to go away to truly see how it looks.

perrys4

Not yet..planning on seeing another paint guy Thursday. Waiting on a leather guy to call me back, he does the SEM stuff.

FRporscheman

I hope it looks good. Is that the same car in your avatar?

85fortheDrive

Yes. The color is Zinmetallic.
And, as you can tell, protective covering was put over Tom Cruise, Anthony Michael Hall, and Michael Keaton during the painting process.

Friday is supposed to be sunny and almost 50. It sure would be nice to see the old boy out in some sunshine. One cool thing is that we can see the details of the garage door guiderails in the front hood reflections now.

Peace,
Tim

ceedee

that sounds like a great price.

85fortheDrive

The guy was very straightforward with us. He felt that since we regularly drive the car, it was not worth getting a 7-10K full repaint. Perhaps for a show car, but I enjoy driving the car waaay to much to store it away.

The next couple of months will be the litmus test to the quality of the job.

CeeDee - are you considering a restoration on yours?

Daniel Dudley

Sounds like a fair price.

Namvet

Beautiful work, and a fair price. Your 84S looks fine!

My 84S looks pretty goof for original, but maybe I will look to redo her paint, sometime soon.

Thanks for the Post!

sfierle

Nice work, I probably will go down a similar road with my '83 sooner-or-later.

jpitman2

I had mine done recently. I chose the job 1 step down from concours - good, but not crazy $. It needed new front and rear bumper covers, so those came off. He also removed the sun roof panel, the rubbing strips, the door handles, mirrors dismanlted, door locks, headlight covers, rear quarter windows, taillights , side markers, sill trims, roof side strips, screen trims, base of screen panel.
He painted to the inside edge of the door jamb (ie up to the carpet). In a couple of places the fenders needed cracks welded up as well. Cost a few 100 extra in new screen trims(kinked in removal), sill clips, and a new sunroof seal etc. All up about 5 weeks elapsed, and $7k. Only issue I have is the sunroof seal is tight, and needs some exercise to start it compressing so the roof will go right up, and he re-used the rear bumper cover beading, and some old overspray is visible, if you look for it. Altogether very happy. Then I spent another $2.5k on having the interior leather refurbed....wonder where this is all going.
jp 83 Euro S AT 50k