Hi guys;
I am doing my own body work on my 69 convertible, and feel I am almost ready for primer. Just in case I am not able to paint my car, I had a local body shop owner, here in Virginia Beach, who has experiance in restoring Corvettes and Camaros come by my house to look over my car and give me an estimate to finish the body. He mentioned that while I have stripped the car and sanded/prepared it well, he would still have to prep the car at his shop, then go through the usual process of priming, block sanding, wet sanding, then painting base/coat clear coat. I asked him what the preping entailed, and he said " Well you know all the filler at the bonding points has to be removed and new filler has to be applied". Is this so? I can see no problems with the filler that is currently there. it is smooth with no cracks or imperfections. It isn't original filler it was applied in 1986 when I had this car put back together and painted with black Imron. The car has been garage kept since. I am mainly concerned with the rear clip bonding points( the front is a Eckler replacement front clip). I will be using slick sand primer, I am trying to do the job myself, even though he gave me a good price($3600) for what he termed would be a show quality paint job. I am going to use it as a driver/Saturday showcar locally. Is he correct in saying I should remove the filler at the bonding points or can I just use the old filler that still looks good?
Thanks,
TED
I am doing my own body work on my 69 convertible, and feel I am almost ready for primer. Just in case I am not able to paint my car, I had a local body shop owner, here in Virginia Beach, who has experiance in restoring Corvettes and Camaros come by my house to look over my car and give me an estimate to finish the body. He mentioned that while I have stripped the car and sanded/prepared it well, he would still have to prep the car at his shop, then go through the usual process of priming, block sanding, wet sanding, then painting base/coat clear coat. I asked him what the preping entailed, and he said " Well you know all the filler at the bonding points has to be removed and new filler has to be applied". Is this so? I can see no problems with the filler that is currently there. it is smooth with no cracks or imperfections. It isn't original filler it was applied in 1986 when I had this car put back together and painted with black Imron. The car has been garage kept since. I am mainly concerned with the rear clip bonding points( the front is a Eckler replacement front clip). I will be using slick sand primer, I am trying to do the job myself, even though he gave me a good price($3600) for what he termed would be a show quality paint job. I am going to use it as a driver/Saturday showcar locally. Is he correct in saying I should remove the filler at the bonding points or can I just use the old filler that still looks good?
Thanks,
TED
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