Retserof

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My vintage red 94 just got dented in the right rear fender and the body shops I've been to so far know nothing about these cars. I'm particularly worried about them all wanting to use 2 stage paint for the repair and having to blend the clear coat into the original single stage paint. Any advice would appreciated greatly.
Pete

Spirit-RE

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I can advise you on some shops to avoid, lol.

Perhaps Kelly Moss?

Retserof

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Any advice would help - positive or otherwise. Send me a PM if you had a bad experience at a body shop here.

Retserof

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Follow-up: I took the car to several shops for estimates. Quotes ranged from $1,200 to$2,800. Some shops felt they could blend the clearcoat into the original paint somewhere on the B pillar, while others thought that would look bad eventually, and wanted to spray the entire roof and other fender too. Kelly Moss was of the latter view, but before they would give me a written estimate they wanted me to take the car to Matt at ZingADing for paintless dent removal (PDR) to see how much he could improve the damage. They said he was the best PDR guy in town, and their estimate would be reduced to the extent that Matt could get any of the dents out first. Another PDR guy had already looked at the car and said I could not avoid conventional body work. He didn't want to work on it.

Matt was also skeptical but assured me that at least he wouldn't make it any worse, and he had successfully removed hail dents from the fender and hood for me about 16 years ago, so I figured I'd go ahead. He worked on it for 4.5 hours and the result was remarkable. No conventional body work is needed, and the car still has all-original paint. It's not perfect, but you'd really have to know where to look to see any imperfections.

So, my thanks to Jerry the body shop manager at Kelly Moss for sending me to Matt, and especially to Matt at ZingADing.