Hi Mario---Thank you for the reply. An estimate on a good quality paint job depends on many things. How far do you want to go with it? How much of the prep can you do yourself?
If you need some minor body work, your fender seams prolly need repairing. Sooo, you strip it down to bare fiberglass, and expose the bonding seams and glass them in. That takes a lot of time.
In my case all fender seams had to be fixed as well as the seam across the back above the tail lights. We also had to rerivit and rebond the header bar between the head light buckets and the hood. Because of fender damage and a cheap job of repairing in the first year of this cars life, we decided to replace the left front fender.
If you go with a two stage (base coat clear coat) paint and have a quality shop that has someone who is experienced with Corvettes, you can be North of 10K verry quickly. As I said earlier, anything you can do yourself can reduce that.
Barry (Jaws79) and rod7515 have just painted their cars and may have more insight.
A 72 BB 4speed Targa Blue Coupe sounds OUTSTANDING to me!
Good luck with your decision!
Dean
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. Maybe in time for Carlisle!
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