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Howard Jones · 10-11-04, 12:45 PM

My experience taught me this. I got several quotes for the full job. Fit, firerglass work, surface prep, and paint. If you have a GTD like mine. 2/3 of the total cost is in getting it ready to paint. This could go as high as 3/4. start with the really heavy work. Lay on any extra fiberglass to aline pannels, add fiberglass to fit lines, and make the whole thing fit correctly. This is a case of your eye, your car. Then sand the whole thing down to 150 grit. Remove everything from the body, lights, door hardware, latches etc. You can even do your own masking, I did. At this point you will have saved 2/3 of your cost. Now have it painted. On the other hand I spent months to get it to this point.

I am using the savings to put on big brakes.

10-11-04, 12:45 PM	#8 (permalink)
Howard Jones 10 tenths Join Date: Jun 2002 GT40: San Francisco Bay Area California USA Posts: 1,947 Rep Power: 26	Re: Painting my \'40 My experience taught me this. I got several quotes for the full job. Fit, firerglass work, surface prep, and paint. If you have a GTD like mine. 2/3 of the total cost is in getting it ready to paint. This could go as high as 3/4. start with the really heavy work. Lay on any extra fiberglass to aline pannels, add fiberglass to fit lines, and make the whole thing fit correctly. This is a case of your eye, your car. Then sand the whole thing down to 150 grit. Remove everything from the body, lights, door hardware, latches etc. You can even do your own masking, I did. At this point you will have saved 2/3 of your cost. Now have it painted. On the other hand I spent months to get it to this point. I am using the savings to put on big brakes.