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'Temporary' could be a year or more...

Or we could sell it to Ryan and be done with this whole silly thing

I have access to a full paint setup and a friend who needs practice

[quote=""vegasidol""]'Temporary' could be a year or more...[/quote]

I think for a temporary solution, the plastidip would be nice, especially since she is in need of some body work.

For a long term solution, bring the car down here to my paint guy. It will take him a month, but your Spyder will look factory show room new when he is done. And for a price that cannot be beaten.

-John

[quote=""J-Groove""]
For a long term solution, bring the car down here to my paint guy. It will take him a month, but your Spyder will look factory show room new when he is done. And for a price that cannot be beaten.

-John[/quote]

Orly?

John wrote:It will take him a month, but your Spyder will look factory show room new when he is done. And for a price that cannot be beaten.

I will hold you to this.

I don't care if it takes an entire winter. I just want to find someone who will work with me to do it the way I want it done.

what kind of price?

I am interested in this also. If its cheap enough, it would be much better than a garage done respray and my inexperienced bodywork

[quote=""Jeff V.""]I will hold you to this.

I don't care if it takes an entire winter. I just want to find someone who will work with me to do it the way I want it done.[/quote]

I've got a guy here that is awesome as well, and gives major cash discounts lol

Steve wrote:I've got a guy here that is awesome as well, and gives major cash discounts lol

That did not work out so well for me last time....

I hoped he wasn't talking about that guy...

Here is his work. He has now done 3 or 4 cars in our group, Adam's included.

The day I dropped off the car. We met up for lunch where I gave him the keys.




First step he went through and marked my car for any place with body damage.



Then went to work fixing her all up.



From there the car was dissembled.







Masked up then primered.





Pretty white paint going on. Did a slight color change from the OEM Galaxy White to the Lexus Starfire White.









All done.








Everything that was black stock, is black with the paint (sail panel stripes, rear bumper t etc.) Car looks factory show room.

Full disasembly, body work, paint and reassembly I was out a total of $2,250. I paid him $2,500 in the end after tip.

Adam was a little less since he dissembled the car before dropping it off.

He does the prep work at his Grandma's house, then sprays the car in his booth at work. You are paying for Richard and the body guy Mike's time. Richard's boss doesn't mind him doing side projects like this in the off time, he works at an insurance paint and body shop. So they are plenty busy.

Sorry for all of the pictures, just wanted to give you a full idea of what he does.

-John

That's an awesome price. I think Jeff wants to do the strip down too (then we'd have to trailer, but I guess we have to get back somehow). I'm thinking 3 stage paint, so that'd be a bit more too, but it's tempting to jump on this sooner than later.

John wrote:Adam was a little less since he dissembled the car before dropping it off.

Here's my ideal scenario.

Strip the car down to a bare rolling chassis myself. I'll rent out a booth and paint the door jambs, engine bay and a few other places that don't require a top quality finish. Maybe do the underbody if I get really ambitious.

Then do the bare minimum reassembly to tow the car to a shop to have the exterior surfaces painted by a professional. Tow the car home and do the final reassembly myself.

The whole car would be a color change BTW.

[quote=""Jeff V.""]Here's my ideal scenario.

Strip the car down to a bare rolling chassis myself. I'll rent out a booth and paint the door jambs, engine bay and a few other places that don't require a top quality finish. Maybe do the underbody if I get really ambitious.

Then do the bare minimum reassembly to tow the car to a shop to have the exterior surfaces painted by a professional. Tow the car home and do the final reassembly myself.

The whole car would be a color change BTW.[/quote]

At that price, I think it'd be best to have him paint it all, rather than messing with a booth and everything.

True. Like I said, that was an ideal scenario.

Ideal or not, it's a shitload of money... We're already well past the point of no return on this car

[quote=""Jeff V.""]That did not work out so well for me last time....[/quote]

Different guy, this guy does a lot of custom stuff. he even painted his motorcycle metallic copper lol.

I need to dip my car. Just need to know how to go about doing it best.

Well, looks like my car will have to go for Dallas for a month sometime in the near future

I thought you had yours at least partially repainted a few years ago?