Dented!

If it is a crease you could use a stud gun to pull it out then a little bondo and paint. You are lucky as that is a very inconspicuous place on the car.

 

Sorry Dan,
That rocker panel is easy. Take off front and rear wheels, take off glass stone guards front and rear. The body shop can get right in there. Any careful shop will do. Push out the panel, sand, prime and respray the black. Should take a day or two. I have had it done twice.
John

 

I am having my rocker panels repainted as well but for another reason. At some point (when I had the Dino Spyder unfortunately) someone used a fork lift to move it! I would love to know who did it but that's water under the bridge now. Anyway, the fork's arms creased the rocker panel on each side of the car as the chassis frame is recessed. I was really bummed find that when I was preping the Dino for the Newport Beach car show. The Dino is in the bodyshop right now getting fixed.

 

At least its just the black part so no need to match the green, thank goodness...that should keep it fairly inexpensive.

I have a chipped out area in my black from going up my ramps on the car lift a bit too quickly, so I need to do the same thing.

Dan, is that a hole in the metal or just the pic?

 

Ouch, Dan.
I know that sound...and that feeling. I recommend that you put the car up on a lift & scan the undercarriage very closely. Find the point of impact & trace it to the exit point. There may be some other damage that you couldn't detect at first glance. From your description of the sound, the baby boulder most likely had to make contact along the bottom, causing it to spring up/out along the rocker panel. I hope your closer inspection finds no additional damage. However, there could be safety issues here that could bite you further down the road.

Oh yeah, that sound...and that feeling. It was a lovely evening in The O.C. and I was cruising in my 289 Cobra down the 405. Without warning, a wheel (sans tire) appeared from underneath the car in front of me. I had no choice but to straddle the rim and...pucker. WHAM! Serious scraping. WHAM! The rim spit out the back & that was the last of it. Well, it turned out that the headers, which hung down lower than the aluminum pan, took the hit. One sophisticated sump guard! There were serious scrapes along the frame rails, and some impact damage on the spare tire well. Of course, I didn't discover all of the damage until I got under the car.

At any rate, I strongly suggest you lift it and look more closely. You know, better safe than sorry.

Keepin' my fingers crossed,
Coop

 

Sorry to hear about your incident, Dan, but very glad that it wasn't any worse. The black-painted area was painted that way to visually slim-down the voluptuous body section. However, repairs are very easily camouflaged. It's a very simple repair, I am sure, and no one will be the wiser when it's done. Semi-gloss black paint in a low area (at a Chihuahua's eye level!) means that only you will know that it was ever there. By the way, I really like the Verde Germoglio. I looked up "germoglio" in an Italian-language dictionary, and found that it has to do with fresh blooms, or something similar. A spectacular look for a Dino! Fred

 

Don't Armorall the black area! Armorall is designed to restore the look of rubber and plastic by coating with silicone and other compounds. This is not what you want on paint! (Especially if you are about to repaint it....these things just make surface prep for repainting about 10 times more difficult!)

Just my $.02.

Birdman

 

The right decision.

Jim S.