Respray options....(one for anyone thats had one)

[dann944]

Hello me again ,

This car is going to cost me a fortune i need to find a few grand for wheels, interior trim, carpets etc....

i've had a Quote from Devils Ride in Gloucestershire for around £2600, thats a complete windows out/mask job....

i was just wondering what you guys have paid for yours and if i can save myself a few quid from using someone recommended


D.

 

[Copperman05]

My own opinion with resprays is you usually get what you pay for, a good quality respray would be about £2500 -£3500. Anything less than that and corners will be cut and you wont get the quality you could be hoping for.

Is there any rush to get it resprayed? Would it be wiser to put it off for awhile and save enough (I never have enough money anyway) for a really good job by someone you trust?

Edd

 

[tref]

On the 924 Cab project I'm working on I spent more than Edd suggested, the guy doing it said "never again", and whilst generally happy, now and again I wish I had taken the last few bits off and gone "bare shell". It was a rolling shell job - wings off, doors off, screen out, bare barring suspension and wheels from the dashboard back.... and took two years so it was a "fill in between other jobs" to keep costs down.

 

[Hilux]

Tref is absolutely correct.

If you`re intention is to keep it then a respray need only be front wings, doors, hatch and front bits off the car, door shuts brought in with the body. The interior can be masked off.

A bit more work but it will look factory original.

 

[dann944]

Yes i do intend to keep it, the respray is a LONG way off yet, as i need to sort the mechanicals out, i was looking at the car earlier and thought that maybe i would get away with getting the scratches professionally touched up ( if this is possible?), getting the hood and bumper painted the take it to be professionally polished to get rid of the swirls

What do you reckon :/

 

[tref]

Neil Haughey with the Bright Blue race-car project is saying that it is almost inevitable that a car is going to pick up some scratches during re-assembly. I hate to admit it, but I have a feeling he is right. The suggestion to him was indeed to have it professionally sorted after the car is back together... and, again, I think he is right. I never cease to be amazed at how my bodywork guy seems to blend stuff in, or find somewhere to hide the join. Or maybe Guards Pink is an easy colour to match...

 

[Neil Haughey]

Well one does have to be real careful not to damage bits of the shell that are a difficult to get at. But you are right, external panels, some of the floor and underside externally of the car will require subtle refinishing after assembly. With something like a race car with no underseal and thin paint etc it also makes sense IMHO to just accept that various external panels and underside panels are going to need repainting or repairing throughout a season (just accept you will crash or go off at some point) and in the off season. It was Kevin Eacock who told me about the need to do paint work after a rebuild, at first I wasn't sure but he was right, it is pretty much impossible to rebuild a car without putting any scratches on it. You could take all kinds of precautions but the fact is its probably cheaper and quicker to just get on with the job and accept the car will need a bit of refinishing after construction. Now as an engineer I would of course want to come up with a process and a plan that negates this need but in all honesty this is unlikely to happen with something entirely hand built by one person in a small workshop with limited funds and time available.

Having said all that last time I looked at the car I only found one mark on the shell that wasn't put there moving it into the garage i.e. not on the underside.