I found out during the process of this whole painting process that the painter was not familar with fiberglass bodys and he was mainly into restoring old metal cars. Neither the painter or the soda blasting company had much experience in the process.
You look over the body shops, look at their paint jobs, and make a decision if this shop is right for you. They give you a good line of BS until they dive into the job. Then all they want is more money, and to get your car out of the shop. The paint job really looks great, but just some of the ignorance in putting it all back together is unacceptable. My main objective was to just get it out of the body shop and fix and reinstall what they did incorrectly, before it got any worse.
I don't recommend Soda Blasting, I do recommend a Corvette paint shop even if it cost several thousand dollars more.
This undercoat has been on the car for the past couple of months, but it will probably be two more months before I can get started removing it. It is already flaking off the spare tire cover.
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