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craigs69 · 12-28-2017, 10:59 AM

Best of luck to you, David. These things seem to drag on more often than not.

Unfortunately for the hobbyist, collision work is much more lucrative and always takes the front seat.

JSPONT · 12-29-2017, 08:58 AM

If his shop is a high end shop (as stated) and busy, to paint a full car and jams takes time. It would tie up his booth and stop his production of his money makers. (insurance work)

MUSLCAH · 12-29-2017, 10:17 AM

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If his shop is a high end shop (as stated) and busy, to paint a full car and jams takes time. It would tie up his booth and stop his production of his money makers. (insurance work)

Insurance work for a whopping 48.00 per hour....whoop de dew...

AdamIsAdam · 12-29-2017, 10:31 AM

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Insurance work for a whopping 48.00 per hour....whoop de dew...

That's what I thought. It's limited.

When I had my front end redone on my car 2 years ago, my local shop, whom I've known for many years, did the work. He's a modern shop who does mostly collision work. However, there are a few old-school guys there who were having a great time working on my car. So much so, in fact, that they did more work that I requested and did it better than I ever could have imagined. They did the following:

-removed entire front end.
-prepped new `glass hood, including sanding the undersigde smooth and painting it to make it look less like a glass hood.
- repairing old bodywork on a front fender
- aligning the fenders to the slight curve of the glass hood by removing all welds and re-welding the inner-to-outter fenders such that all seems were perfect.
- completely filling and sanding the blower motor cover to make it perfect (I never asked for that one at all!)
- creating a hidden mount for my MSD box and all related wiring so that it's completely invisible yet accessible.
- painted entire engine bay, frame, etc.
- painted the full nose of the car with perfectly matched paint.
- painted that tough finish texture paint you see on the bottom sills of Mercedes on my lower rear quarters.
- realigned all of my windows
- relocated my battery and wiring to the correct side of the car (remember, it's a LeGTO)

He did all of this in about 4 weeks, and I was chomping at the bit to get it back. So I can't imagine waiting a year for a repair job. It's not a full resto or anything. Sheesh.

Oh, and my guy only charged me the insurance hourly rate which as I recall was in the $4x range.

That reminds me, I need to bring my two other cars in to him for bumper work.

geeteeohguy · 04-27-2017, 10:55 AM

I agree, too. I don't like vinyl tops at all, but they look 'right' on a '68 and '69. Hate them on the earlier cars and the later ones, too. Colors are the same way....what looks great on a square early car looks bad on a swoopy later car, and vise-versa. That said, I always wanted to build a Verdoro Green '65 Convertible with a Parchment interior!

MUSLCAH · 05-19-2017, 08:36 AM

Looks like 6 months and counting...

Bob Rutledge · 05-19-2017, 11:15 AM

Holy moly I just looked at the first post. December when this all started. Man, this takes a long time.

MUSLCAH · 06-03-2017, 11:38 PM

Tick tock ..tick tock......It's June.....is it primer ?

cuz68 · 06-03-2017, 11:50 PM

Have you done any thing to it?

David Jones · 06-06-2017, 02:02 PM

I'm at a trade show in Las Vegas for a week and just saw this.
They got into the rear quarter and discovered that the inner fender was toast and had to order one, which came in last week. In the mean time they've got the got the front bumper lined up better than it was and stripped the vinyl roof off and patched a couple of holes back by the rear window. He said the rest of the roof looked great, which surprised me. He has a sample of paint and will shoot me a sample soon after I get back home. When will it be done? Tommy says "maybe" by months end.....but don't count on it. I have stressed all along that I'll gladly trade time for quality. No hurry here......though I will admit to missing it.......

NeighborsComplaint · 08:16 PM

These things just have a way of turning into a pus case. I went through this when my ex-GF keyed my car. Long story I have posted before but the body shop said "no way" to repairing and repainting the hood, trunk lid and entire driver's side that she mangled. The car had original paint, primer, an original color re-spray, primer, Imron color change re-spray, primer and a clearcoat/base coat re-spray (mine) on it. I had no idea there was that much paint on the car. The Imron was like powder coat and would not feather edge so all the paint had to come off.

The ex took responsibility only for the panels she damaged but changed her mind when faced with a Felony Property Damage charge vs. stripping and repainting the entire car.

You never know what the body shop will find when the paint is stripped.

The Boss · 10-15-2017, 10:03 AM

How's the car David?

MUSLCAH · 10-15-2017, 11:45 AM

We body shops call them cars ....Planters ....lol.....They are good luck charms for those of us that do insurance work......so when those come in...we get buried with crash work....

David Jones · 10-16-2017, 01:19 PM

All the body work is done.....minus making that repop quarter panel fit.
As Muslcah noted, PG Collision has been covered up since I dropped the GTO off. He even thanked me when I talked to him earlier this month.

Chief of the 60's · 12-27-2017, 08:42 PM

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All the body work is done.....minus making that repop quarter panel fit.
As Muslcah noted, PG Collision has been covered up since I dropped the GTO off. He even thanked me when I talked to him earlier this month.

You wouldn't have to worry about a Taiwan panel fitting if the shop was doing their due diligence and repaired the simple damage on the quarter panel. A repaired quarter is always a better repair than a replaced one regardless whether it is an OEM or an aftermarket. That is the problem these days, everyone wants to be a parts replacer not a skilled worker.