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Tony,
Well that figures! Nothing is easy. Thanks for the heads up. Do you have a paint recommendation?
Mike
Perhaps the shop will work with you and do sections of the car at a time tackling the worst sections first. I have a fantastic local shop but as Mark noted insurance work is their bread and butter replacing plastic parts with plastic parts on newer cars after a quick spray. That is sad because my guy is really good with the old metal bodied cars ... but he had to make a living and fully understand. With that he agreed to break my car down and do it in about 4 different sections. This took about a year and a half. I also agreed to pull all the trim and bumpers off that section as needed except the window reveal trim. With that approach I would usually have the car to shop on a given Monday and pick up that following weekend. While it took about 1.5 years it worked out great by spreading out my expenses, and allowing my guy to really concentrate on a specific area as we can. We are current doing my 2002 Escalade EXT in that manner. He recently painted the hood and the top and waiting for a call to bring in for the next state. The EXT is black which is an easy match. The Sierra Gold took a few trial runs on the 1st attempt but once they had the formula down pat it was easy going for remainder sections of car.
With daily driver accidents most people want their car back ASAP, but if you explain to painter you are not in that big of a hurry, they might agree to paint in stages as they did mine. Of course you don't want to use a here today, gone tomorrow operation and want to use a reputable established paint shop. My shop has been in business since 1958 and run by original owners son for the last 25 years.
Mike
I also live in Orange County, CA and will be looking to have my family's '64 Sedan DeVille to be painted in the coming years. It still has the original Aspen White too and is finally showing rust (garaged most of its life). Piece of information for ya, a body shop in Long Beach, CA (8+ years ago) told my dad that if he still wanted the original lacquer-based '64 paint he would have to either get it himself from Arizona, for example, or have a relative bring some out this way on a trip. My dad really wanted it to be the original lacquer even though the body shop owner said that today's enamel (mineral spirit-based) paints are so good that all that effort getting the out-of-state paint likely wasn't worth it.
I'm hoping you post follow-up information as you progress through your paint process. Curious who you end up using and what you experienced with that shop.
Rob
Hi Rob, I’ll keep you posted. Love to see your SDV and say hello. Let’s meet at Donut Derelicts sometime.
Mike
Hi Mike
I’ll PM you sometime and yes let’s make that happen. My SDV will be heading into the shop soon for some carb tuning and a few other issues.
Rob
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