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Originally Posted by NeighborsComplaint
A local body shop said "Don't even start messing with it, we'll block, prime, basecoat and clearcoat, wet sand and buff the whole car for $1200 if we can tape off the jambs. That's sounding really good right about now.
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Took the shop up on the $1200 deal. The shop was a local Maaco who did some specialty work out of the back. The shop owner showed me a couple cars they were doing "mini-restorations" on and the work looked really good. They metal patched my hood pin holes, straightened the kinks in the hood, block sanded and primed the whole car. It looked great in primer. Then they painted the car with a base/clear and it was not so good. Lots of orange peel and some obvious prep flaws. They left chips in the paint on the edges of the hood and did a sloppy cut-in with masking tape along the lower window bright moldings and left the surface very rough pn the doors from the body lines up where they couldn't machine sand. They drop filled the chips and shot some kind of "speed-clear" over the rough paint and buffed it out.
I felt that I got my money's worth and the car looked good for a cruise night driver. The first hot day, the paint blistered in multiple spots. The paint was not adhering and of course the shop claimed claimed no responsibility for "prior body work". Shortly thereafter, the paint begain blistering over the filled in hood pins. I went back to the shop and they were out of business. To make a long story short, I threw away $1200.
I wound up having the car stripped to bare metal and completely redone by a highly recommended independant shop. The paint literally came off in sheets because there was no adhesion between the new paint and the old.