Bottom left of my 308….[ATTACH]
Sending a 45 years + old Italian (Or English) vintage car to a paint shop for a full quality repaint is in nine out of ten times asking for serious troubles. Painters are painters and not mechanics. The quote they give is often way below the actual price it cost to do a high quality re-assemble job on a sub quality car. That's why the car is returned with quick fixes and bad craftsmanship's and that's why nearly no paint shops are taking in vintage cars from privates for re-paint - They can't earn their money, and it often ends with jobs that's dragging out for ever and non-satisfied customers. A Ferrari of that era is a nice engine dumped into a perfect aesthetic designed chassis. The assemble quality and assemble methods are questionable at best and requires really detailed, time consuming and competent re-assemble work (Ask Newman). If one don't want to invest what it cost to have the car dismantled at a proper mechanical shop (Do you due diligence!), painted at the paint shop and re-assembled in the mechanical shop, then I would recommend either not to paint the car or to paint it without dismantling it (Wrap maybe?) and save the money until they can afford to do it right. The other alternative is to do the mechanical part of a paint job yourself. It's highly recommended if you master it and it's very rewarding. Also you can only blame yourself if something goes wrong The 308 is increasing in value and deserves properly executed maintenance / repair work. Best, Peter
