Re: Paint job opinions please

[CobraLee1@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 10/15/2006 9:57:37 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
plypkup41@xxxxxxxxx writes:

Get it painted,the cold weather won't have any effects
on a new paint job.I'm a auto refinisher and we paint
them all year long with no warranty issues.

--- Jim Jablonski <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Wow ... thought I logged on to a Yahoo message board
> for a minute there 
> with all the heavy topics ... and of course I didn't
> help with my 
> baseball post ... but here's one that's hopefully
> get us back on track:
> 
> I am (finally) at a point where my Fury is ready to
> be sent to the 
> body shop for paint, and this is clearly my weakest
> area of expertise, so 
> I would like a few opinions, please:
> 
> a) I live in Michigan, and I don't have a heated
> garage.  It is already 
> getting cold and will be so until probably April. 
> Should I send the 
> Fury out now to be painted, then have it sit in the
> covered tundra for 
> the rest of the winter, or would a better idea be to
> wait until late 
> winter, so by the time I get it back, it is spring? 
> The reason I am 
> asking (and perhaps I shouldn't be concerned?), is
> that it seems to me 
> that moving a spanking new paint job into cold, damp
> storage will 
> probably not be a good thing?
> 
> b) My plan is to find windshield and back window
> gaskets so I can have 
> the glass removed for painting.  Is this a big deal,
> and what do I need, 
> gaskets AND molding retaining clips for both
> (windshield and rear window)?
> 
> c) (This one is gonna kill the factory-original
> crowd.  Apologies!)  I 
> am seriously considering filling in the clip holes
> along the back panel 
> ... the ones that enable the retention of the back
> trim pieces that form 
> the fake grill look between the taillights on a
> Fury.  (Don't believe 
> this trim exists on a Belvedere.)  I just don't like
> the cheap look of 
> the moldings, and besides, I want to place a kill
> switch on the right 
> side.  Remembering that this car is street/strip,
> not trailer queen show 
> material, how awful do you think it will be to have
> a "Belvedere look" 
> in the back on a Fury?

I say go ahead and paint it...as far as I know, the painter has to adjust the 
paint with the hardener according to the outside temperature but not a big 
deal.  As far as the rear grille, it is original and I wouldn't call it fake, 
since there is no functionality to it...all cars that have rear trim are usually 
for asthetics, not function.  I think it would take the look away.  

Ron
'63 Plymouth Fury
Golden Commando 383cu. 4 speed

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