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[mepstein]

My suggestion is to find a local place in an industrial park that will work with you. Our local place isn't pretty and my order isn't typical (they mostly do patio furniture and aluminum awnings). $275 got all this done and my 914-6 tank. Everything looked like crap on the way in.

[Tom_T]

Mark,

Since they all mostly use the same PC color charts & materials, how was the color & finish match to the OE satin black used on your -6 parts as painted from the factory? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

I had interior parts on my `88 Westy PC'd with a local guy my body shop uses, & we got an excellent match for it's factory color, but they were more of a semi-gloss or gloss originally.

Just wondering if they'd be able to match the factory black satin for my 73 2L's parts in the resto?
- essentially the same set of parts as as what you've done for your -6.

TIA (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
Tom
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[mepstein]

Mark,

Since they all mostly use the same PC color charts & materials, how was the color & finish match to the OE satin black used on your -6 parts as painted from the factory? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

I had interior parts on my `88 Westy PC'd with a local guy my body shop uses, & we got an excellent match for it's factory color, but they were more of a semi-gloss or gloss originally.

Just wondering if they'd be able to match the factory black satin for my 73 2L's parts in the resto?
- essentially the same set of parts as as what you've done for your -6.

TIA (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
Tom
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Honestly, all I told them was run everything semigloss black. I also had 4 sets of 911 engine tin including a set of '76 turbo tin. Their semi black was a dead match for the turbo tin and that's what we needed. 2% of the cars we do are original restorations. The rest are hot rods. Hot rods are easier because we make them look the way we want, not the way we think some judge wants.

[Tom_T]

Honestly, all I told them was run everything semigloss black. I also had 4 sets of 911 engine tin including a set of '76 turbo tin. Their semi black was a dead match for the turbo tin and that's what we needed. 2% of the cars we do are original restorations. The rest are hot rods. Hot rods are easier because we make them look the way we want, not the way we think some judge wants.

Okay, Thanx. Yes - resto-mod frees you up a lot more.

Semi-gloss may work for what I want, I'll probably check something on a test piece.

Thanx Again! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
Tom
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