Re: [T3] The Baroness gets a makeover

[Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 3 Oct 2002, at 22:03, Fiesta Cranberry wrote:

> I finally found a body shop that is excited to work o the B.  I called
> so many, and when I told them what kind of a car I had, I got the same
> reaction, "Oh."  Long silence.  "We don't work on such old cars."  When
> I called this place and told the guy, his reaction was, "COOL CAR!  Do
> you want to sell it?"  I knew I had the right place then :^)

Seems like a good reaction. 

> So they're gonna fix her up and put on primer.  Then I'm gonna take her
> someplace cheaper and get a full body paint job.  So my question is, is
> it sacrilege to change the color?  She's (mostly) Marina Blau right now.
> I'd love to paint her purple.

Why not let them finish the job. The cheap guys will just give you a job that 
you'll never be happy with. OTOH, a complete respray is REALLY expensive 
to get done RIGHT. I don't know how bad the rest of your paint is, but a car 
that has been repained a different color will always look like exactly that 
unless you spend LOTS of money to get everything redone. The Marina Blau 
is the classic late type 3 color and is really a nice color.

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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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