What’s in the paint shop today?

I wouldn't say we specialise, but quite a few classics come our way

At the minute we're being inundated with Puch Maxis :-D They're very much in fashion with the hipsters here. I haven't taken photos of these as wasn't sure they'd garner much interest here, but I'll see if I can get a couple next week anyway.

Most of our work is boring quick turnaround stuff from local car dealers; scuffed bumpers and minor parking dings, that kind of thing.

It is

…and on that subject, a colleague and I were working on a customer’s E30 convertible the other day in their little car cave.

The E30 is a project that the punter started years ago apparently. The C123 is in beautiful nick, 7 series gathering dust

I kinda want one having had a read - not sure I could handle the 21bhp from that awe inspiring lump tho

This has to be a positive tho: “ The unusually direct steering no doubt delighted some keen drivers, but road tests of the time nonetheless included warnings to take great care with the car's handling on wet roads due to oversteer”

It’s quiet in the shop at the minute, summer holidays.

People are crashing their cars in to each other in other countries.

But!

Two lovely German things here for rust repairs for which will be familiar to anyone here that’s owned one.

Curiously enough, we were only asked to repair the rear three quarter on this E39. The rest of the car suddenly looks a bit scruffy



…and a C208 Convertible with repairs that will have owners of any Merc of this generation breaking out in a sweat due to either déjà vu or ominous foreboding :-D




Still some Mustang excellence to come, I took the pics ages back, just keep forgetting to post

how much would you charge for a full re spray ,

with no prep

and also for one requiring rubbing down ,priming and top coat

It’s been a while, not much exciting coming in recently. Not sure if this counts as exciting, but not many of them still in daily use, especially not the 4x4 model:




A US-spec 450SL in for some minor work. I never understand why owners keep the federal-spec lights and bumpers. It doesn’t make them look better or more rare, it just makes them look st

Lovely car nonetheless. Sorry about the awful pics, the place is a little crowded

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It's been a while

A Mini 1275 GT popped up the other day. Apparently it's a car that the boss worked on during his apprenticeship knocking-on thirty years ago, then it was stuck in storage until last year when the current owner got it back on the road. It's in for a little rust work and a respray.

I don't really like Minis - new or old - as a rule, but there's something about a modded one that's quite interesting. This one had all the period mods thrown at it and it sounds great.





...and our jobs are nothing if not varied Prep on a kayak (or whatever it is, some floaty thing) makes a nice change from kerbed alloys, parking bumps and bits of Fiat 500s damaged while their owner was doing makeup for TikTok while in traffic (you couldn't make this st up, people really are that stupid ).



Until next time - have a nice weekend you lot

Dodge Ram Rumble Bee in for a respray. Imported from the US West Coast a few years back, it hasn't taken long for the rust to take hold The quality of materials inside and out and the standard of assembly of said materials is nothing short of shockingly bad...but I love it and I'd own it at the drop of a hat <3

Haha, you're not wrong, I think we had the tailgate, grille and rear bumper off in less I can see that you know what you're talking about and must be handy with the Imperial tools? None of that Goddamn Yoo-ro-peen metric stuff on a C5

I'm completely in love with the Ram, but for me it would have to be the SRT-10 version

Some interesting stuff there.

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