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man, that brings back memories of my complete repaint, where every panel came off the car, was stripped down to the factory prep, and then re-shot off the car, re-assembled, and shot again
nothing - it was a concourse winner when i got it - but, the original paint has orange peel - i wanted it smooth - also, it had enough pits and such, and had seen enough rework that i wanted a perfect paint job - i concoursed it for a while, but got bored with that
i'll probably be doing it all over again in a year or so - paint over paint is bad, so i'll strip it again before i go forward
I still have a real soft spot for the 968, and it's becomming really hard to find a nice one. My brother looked for one for over a year, and we couldn't find a good one, so he ended up getting a Boxster S.
nothing - it was a concourse winner when i got it - but, the original paint has orange peel - i wanted it smooth - also, it had enough pits and such, and had seen enough rework that i wanted a perfect paint job - i concoursed it for a while, but got bored with that
Didn't you have two accidents with the car-one on the highway, and another when parked and someone in a truck backed into the car and damaged the hood? I thought that was the reason for at least one of the repaints.
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1995 968 Cabriolet, Speed Yellow/Black, Promax, Kinesis Supercups, Big Red fronts, MO30 rears, LSD, MO30 Sway Bars, H&R Sport Springs, Cargraphic 100 cell cat and SS exhaust, Brey Krause control arm brace, Dynatech billet strut brace, Club Sport Steering Wheel, Short Shift, Sport Seats
my car was one of those that had rework done to it before it even got to the dealer - this apparantly happens a LOT - they don't have to report it either, because the car has not been delivered to the dealer - nearly half of my car had been re-shot before it got there
by the time i got the car, the previous owner had already re-shot the front bumper cover
after i got it, i got rear-ended once by a 75 year old preacher from georgia who was on his cell phone - this required a bumper cover job - while i was at it i re-shot the rockers
then i got backed over, requiring a buffing of the hood
then when i got backed over again while parked i opted to re-shoot the entire car, stripping it down entirely
the primary reason for doing the job the way i did was to get rid of the unsatisfactory factory paint - the rework looked better than the factory paint, and with as much having been done after the fact, plus the pits and chips from driving it, i wanted it redone, and this time done better
then 3 weeks after the paint job, i got bumped in the left front fender by a 17 year old kid, requiring a new fender
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