Bare Metal Respray - Alfa GT Junior

[JCH88]

Hi All

I have a 1971 Alfa GT Junior that i'd like to have resprayed, without being able to get out to some bodyshops at the moment i'm hoping you guys might be able to provide some info.

What kind of ball park price am I looking at for a full strip down inside and out down to bare metal, some bodywork (who knows how much on an old alfa) and then a full respray so I have a finish shell that I can then build back up myself?

Appreciate this is probably a how longs a piece of string question as the level of metal work needed can cause huge swings in cost, but any advice would be great.

Thanks
James

[nickv]

I would say you will be looking in excess of 4K.

4K would probably buy you around 100 hrs depending on the hourly charge. And leave around £500 for material. The body would need to be pretty good with minimal repairs to bare metal and paint in 100hrs.

That would be a pretty low price for a decent shop, And tbh you prob won’t get it done for 4, just thought I would point out how far 4K would go.

In reality you prob looking at 7k-10k

It’s never good news when requiring inside and out bare metal paint job.

[omniflow]

I would say you're looking at somewhere between £5K and £15K.

Stripping a 105 Alfa is definitely something you could do yourself, then you could either get the chassis dipped, or the paint removed with pyrolysis - that costs about £1000. Once you'd done this, a body shop would be able to give you a realistic price for any metalwork and then a full re-paint.

If you give them the car as-is, then the price you start with won't be the price you end up paying. I don't think there's a single one of these cars that hasn't had some kind of structural body repair at some point in the past 40+ years.

[trickywoo]

Seems strange that you are keen for someone else to strip and then you reassemble. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Either do both yourself and someone else the paint in between or get someone to do a full restoration.

I’d have thought £4K would be a minimum for a quality job on paint and body if you strip and reassemble yourself.

[V8covin]

Bare metal on an Alfa ? That's a can of worms you're opening.
Impossible to price until it's down to metal.

[JCH88]

V8covin said:

Bare metal on an Alfa ? That's a can of worms you're opening.
Impossible to price until it's down to metal.

Sigh, I thought people would say this. Let's say its not that great underneath, but equally not totally horrendous either. Would £10k cover it? £15k?

[omniflow]

JCH88 said:

Sigh, I thought people would say this. Let's say its not that great underneath, but equally not totally horrendous either. Would £10k cover it? £15k?

This is one of the rear wings on my Spider post pyro strip. I can assure you that it looked nothing like this with paint on it. You really do need to get it to bare metal before you can price up the job.

[rufmeister]

Worth speaking to Smart Automotive in a Eaton Bray near Dunstable, they have 3 of these in for resto at the minute, and have done a few in the past, was drooling over them last week!

[SeeFive]

DIY a very long time ago Cost? my time, some materials and sundries.

Paint mostly off, plenty of tinworm under filler:


4 weekends and a lot of swearing later:

Edited by SeeFive on Wednesday 3rd June 13:17