Paint work done :)
06-13-2015, 12:33 AM
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Paint work done :)
For as long as I've owned this car, I've had a poorly repaired rear quarter panel from the prior owner, and a poorly aligned and slightly warped hood from a too-big Huntley MAF/air filter. When the rear quarter started to crack and chip, I finally took it in to Cecil at Bodystyle in San Jose for paint. After a long (!) wait, I finally got it back today and am very pleased with the results. It makes me now want to paint the doors and roof so it all matches and ages together. In the meantime, it's never looked better 
And I took the opportunity to redo the garage floor with new tiles since the garage was empty for a while.
And I took the opportunity to redo the garage floor with new tiles since the garage was empty for a while.
06-13-2015, 10:07 AM
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Beautiful car.
06-13-2015, 11:46 AM
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Showroom shiny!
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06-13-2015, 01:55 PM
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Thanks guys. The original single stage paint held up great for 30 years, but it's now just super thin, and the deeper red tones have faded out over the years making it nearly orange next to the true guards red. Not sure if anyone blends back color lines anymore with the new enviro-paint, but frankly the original paint is so thin, I'' probably get the doors and roof done too. Still looks better than ever right now -- just a clean, bone stock 86 944 Turbo, nothing to see here. 
The 944 became so commonplace in the 80's they go unnoticed, but the car really has great lines when you stop and admire it a bit -- the design holds its own against plenty of exotics I'd say.
The garage tiles are Racedeck's original diamond plate 12" tiles. I just replaced the same tiles I installed a decade ago. The old tiles were still functional and looked "ok" but they were really showing their age after a decade of pretty heavy shop use. They go in and out so easy, it was a one day job to swap in the new ones (after a week or two of cleaning the garage so I could even see the floor) Happy Summer!
The 944 became so commonplace in the 80's they go unnoticed, but the car really has great lines when you stop and admire it a bit -- the design holds its own against plenty of exotics I'd say. The garage tiles are Racedeck's original diamond plate 12" tiles. I just replaced the same tiles I installed a decade ago. The old tiles were still functional and looked "ok" but they were really showing their age after a decade of pretty heavy shop use. They go in and out so easy, it was a one day job to swap in the new ones (after a week or two of cleaning the garage so I could even see the floor)
Happy Summer!
06-13-2015, 01:58 PM
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Very nice Tom.
Out of curiosity, if you were going to have the whole car repainted, do you think it's worth having the car completely stripped down into pieces, or would you go for more of a tape stuff off and just do the outside kind of approach?
Out of curiosity, if you were going to have the whole car repainted, do you think it's worth having the car completely stripped down into pieces, or would you go for more of a tape stuff off and just do the outside kind of approach?
06-13-2015, 02:13 PM
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"worth it" is such a subjective term.... Until these cars appreciate like the 911's, it's hard to justify the cost of a quality strip-down full repaint from a financial perspective. I plan to keep this car for a long long time, so it would be "worth" it to me. I cringe at taped paint lines around weather stripping, etc. -- and suspect most car guys so -- so would personally avoid that at all costs. If you take cues from the 356/911 crowd, plenty of those had cheap-o paint jobs before their values skyrocketed, and I think the cars with worn original paint were easier to sell and worth more than cars with cheap paint jobs. I'd imagine the same will be true for our cars if the current upward value trend continues...
06-13-2015, 02:50 PM
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The financial perspective is certainly an issue. On the one hand, it would be nice to have all the nooks and crannies the same color, age, no ugly lines, etc. On the other, paying likely more than the car is worth in paint would be considered crazy in some circles.
Like yourself, I'm not planning on selling my car in the foreseeable future. So I'm not really considering resale value right now. My main concern is that I want the car a different color than what it is now. It's black, and I want gunmetal grey.
So it's not like the color is totally different like say, red to black. So herein is where my confliction lies. Should I go all out and just do it right, or just have some spots, like the engine bay, that don't 'quite' match, and save a pile of dough for other goodies...
Anyways, I'm just thinking out loud. Sorry for hijacking your thread.
Like yourself, I'm not planning on selling my car in the foreseeable future. So I'm not really considering resale value right now. My main concern is that I want the car a different color than what it is now. It's black, and I want gunmetal grey.
So it's not like the color is totally different like say, red to black. So herein is where my confliction lies. Should I go all out and just do it right, or just have some spots, like the engine bay, that don't 'quite' match, and save a pile of dough for other goodies...Anyways, I'm just thinking out loud. Sorry for hijacking your thread.