[TR] Painting a car

[Alex]

Would love to see those spats. Are they the ones that went for $4500 a few 
years ago on ebay?
Alex Manzo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randall" <tr3driver at ca.rr.com>
To: "'Triumphs'" <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: [TR] Painting a car


>> It seemed that the typical paint job with moderate
>> bodywork was in the $4,000 - $5,000 dollar range.
>
> Well, that makes me feel better!
>
> Since TS13571L is to be strictly a driver, never a show car, I took it to
> the local Earl Scheib outlet.  With what I would call a moderate amount of
> bodywork (including two rust repairs, welding six splits, replacing a
> captive nut, filling an antenna hole, several larger dents, mounting the
> rear fenders, installing chrome beads and spats); and several add-ons for
> the paint job (painting doorjambs; painting underside of hood, trunk, 
> spare
> tire lid, vent lid; black racing stripe); and their next-to-highest 
> quality
> paint (several coats of integrated clear-coat, no color sanding), the
> estimate was $2000.
>
> After the bodyman got started, he pointed out another dozen or so places
> that needed attention ... OK, so I assumed he was going to sand off all 
> the
> old primer and reskim it with filler but it turns out that is NOT what he
> was doing ... they wanted another $700 to fix all the little spots.
>
> Remains to be seen what I will get (yes, I fully expect to find the
> trademark overspray on the exhaust <G>), but I remain hopeful.
>
> They are supposed to be finishing off the bodywork today and shooting
> tomorrow, so I'll try to visit tomorrow morning and see how it looks.
>
> BTW, I could easily have done at least $1000 of that body work myself. 
> Kind
> of wish I had, now.  OTOH, this way maybe I'll have a running TR3 by the
> time the weather warms up next month.  That will be worth it.
>
> Randall
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