To paint or not to paint

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I would leave it the way it is till you can afford to do it correctly. If you
plan on doing again later, the money spent now would be mostly wasted. A second
option would be to fix the rust properly now & just put some paint over the
repair areas to hold it till later. If you live in a dry climate like here in
Phoenix, you could leave it like it is & it won't get much worse until your
ready to fix it.
John

Imperial 59 wrote:

> That is the question.
>
> So tell me what you would do....
>
> Eileen the '59 Imperial has paint that has seen many a better day along with
> a dent in the driver door and a scrape on the passenger side.  There is a
> little rust on the bottom of the fenders in front of the doors but that is
> about all.
>
> I have had a couple of estimates from the high quality body shops in the
> area in the 6k range to do everything.  Unfortunatley after being out of
> work for a few months and working as temp for a few more money is tight and
> I honestly can't see myself being able to spend this kind of money on the
> car for several years (probably five).
>
> I am now considering pulling all the chrome myself and having a "low cost"
> shop fix some of the body stuff and spray the car. Would I be worse off in
> five years for having done this?  I really want to be able to drive the car
> more and mechanically it is in pretty good shape.  I just don't drive it due
> to the needed bodywork and bad chrome.  Fortunatley I got lots of decent
> chrome off of the parts car before it moved on to parts car heaven.
>
> So tell me what you would do!  Positives and negatives would be appreciated.
>
>                                Steve B.
>