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Originally Posted by Clemson88
Learn to paint. It's not such a big deal if you don't have to straighten out wrinkled metal or fill dents. When I started refinishing the interior of my project car I found a SEM dealer here in town and ordered two quarts of paint. I asked and they gave me a pint of mismatched paint to practice with.
I bought a HF HPLV professional touchup gun and lined up a few door panels I didn't need for the job and learned to paint.
Body parts not on the car should be easy to handle and prep. The painting will be simple with little or no masking and if you screw it up you won't be dealing with too big a mess.
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I have actually done my share of auto painting in years past, but this car deserves the best (it only has about 80,000 miles on it, and the rest of the car is near perfect). I don't have a place to do the paint work, nor do I feel confident I can lay it on as good as a body shop could (they paint every day).