Big Owy!!

Well, I sorta screwed up big time here. Let's just say there was a miscalculation in the garage. And on the first ride of the season!!

This is a deep scratch. I'm looking for step-by-step to fix this short of repainting the whole car, which is not going to happen. I have some touch-up paint, and that is about it. I am a complete novice wrt this sort of stuff. Anybody help?? Front right fender, just in front of the trim. Any suggestions/help will be deeply appreciated.

Maybe Jack C. will have an opinion about the Langa stuff.

I felt the same way when I dropped my engine compartment lid and made a 50 cent piece size chip.

I feel bad for you.

KELLY
AT THE PASO ROBLES EVENT 3 YEARS AGO I DROPPED MY 35MM AND TOOK A LARGE CHUNK OF PAINT OUT OF MY DOOR
I HAD THAT SECTION RESPRAYED AND U COULD NEVER TELL
U NEED TO CONTACT A GOOD PAINTER AND GET YOUR PAINT CODE FROM JPS
NO NEED TO PAINT THE WHOLE CAR

Ditto Gerd's advice....

Kelly - DIY touch up will probably not satisfy you especially where you see it each time you enter (unless its quarter size - I thought that was chrome door handle at first but must be beltline trim?). Expert painter 1/4 mile from me in Springfield. Jimmy Ratcliff at CAR on Twist Lane in Newington Industrial Park. CAR=Collector's Auto Restoration. He does lots of old Corvettes. Do you have pint of original paint perhaps?

Kelly,

You can use a local shop or bring it up here where I get my builds painted (Danny P's Spyder is in that shop now) Since it is the fender, it is difficult to find a drop off area to allow for blending into the exsisiting paint but nothing is impossible. Sometimes, you can get lucky with an airbrush fix but not that often. The'll use either your paint code or better yet, a specific paint camera to take a pic of the paint and produce an exact color match. My paint guy Randy is top notch, very reasonable and will do the repair area right the first time ~Alan drclockATpa.net

Primer. And then paint a big 36 on it ...

Kidding. I know how super-careful you are with your paint.
There's a corvette guy in Laurel named Bobby Gload. Good dude, great shop.
I'll pass his number to you when I get home today.

I have the paint code, and the color is actually an official Porsche paint, so I got a touch-up kit from my local P-car dealer, which includes the color and a gloss coat too. When I parked in front of the place to go buy that item, the show room quickly emptied out to the parking lot to have a look. Some were disappointed to see it was a kit-car. Anyway, I appreciate the advice. Would I screw it up if I tried to touch-up, ended up not liking the result, and then wanted to have it "done right". This scratch goes down into the FG, I'm pretty sure. Would one fill that first, then try for paint?

Thanks for the pointers, guys.

Dr. Clock: I sure have heard a lot about Randy and his abilities recently. Done right the first time sounds good to me. Question: how long would such a repair take? Would he need the car for more than a day to allow for drying, curing, whatever? Or would the process not take that long?

Based on my experiences with him, I would say two days max.....if you were to drop it there I would pick it up when done and put it in my shop or home garages until you had a chance to get back out here. ~Alan

"Some were disappointed to see it was a kit-car"
Would have loved to have THAT on video.

~WB

How deep is deep ?

If its clear into the Fglass you'll hafta fill it
See Hotrodders site

If Just a "key" scratch ;
Clean it with lac thnr about 5 times . Use Q-Tips .
Mask it within 1/16-1/8"
Apply the touch-up paint with Q-Tip . Let paint flash few minutes .Repeat until its overfilled
Wait a few days then sand with 800 - 1200- rub-buff.

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Just talked with my paint guy, would need to see photos as top where it is on the car to make a decison as to how much of the area would need to be done to make for a professional job w/o seeing the overlap from new to old . Alan

Kelly---Just dammit!!!I feel for you my friend. The second day I owned my car I dropped that heavy steel flat metal piece that secures the spare tire in the trunk right onto my front bumber so I feel your pain. (When that happened I did turn the air blue!!)


The Langa touch up kit is just sensational for chips you get on the road but the kind of damage you have is not gonna be helped by the Lanka.

Get yours sprayed as others are saying. You will have your gorgeous car back as nice as it was ---I won't go as far as to say that someday you'll laugh at this incient.

I'll get out my magnifiers and see what I can see, but believe this is down into the FG -- defitely not a key scratch. So filling is in the cards. Alan: will post up more pics so can see better the nature of things. So what am I going to do around Chambersberg for two days while the paint is made right? Logistics would be a problem.

Well you can do some of it,

Tape off close to it with frog tape lightly sand the defect and spot putty it.And wait a day ( or 2).

Keep the area masked until after you have lightly sanded it with 120 grit, as close to flush of the old paint as you can .

Then untape and carefuly water sand it with 400 grit wet dry paper On a small rubber block to level it. Thats a small 1 inch block. I had to band saw a perfectly good sanding block to make one that small. But it's worth it

Then you can take it in and let the the paint shop spot prime and touch it up.

That should help you some on the repair cost and down time..

"Some were disappointed when they learned it was a kit car".

How I dislike that term, "Kit car".

When I am asked if mine is a kit car I just say no, and add that they are being made again in a factory in Southern California with many improvements over the old ones. My framed car info sheet I use at shows lists the designer as Ferdinand Porsche and the builder as Vintage Speedsters, Hawaiian Gardens, CA. and goes on to list the mechanical features; "4 wheel disc brakes,etc,etc."

on the Langa touch up kit---I should have added that although it won't help a major, deep scratch thats down to the FG, it is sensational on typical scratches we get and dings that occur mostly in the front area sof the car. Not cheap but the repair is 100% invisible and it's easy to use.

I know your paint repair will be excellent and you will never know it was damaged.

Again, txs to all for the continued encouragement and tips/pointers/references. have not decided exactly what all to do yet, and likely will start w/ local guy hereabouts that Cory has suggested. at least give a profesional expert a chance to talk me down off the ledge.

Kelly....I went through the same trauma when I poked that hole in the Spyder's rear end.....
Once the repair is underway, the pressure drops, and you relax, because its all in the body shop's domain......All you can do is approve the repair or not.....

Just don't let a little damage keep you from Carlisle....... ;-)

That's all you can do is say " Oh Sh*t " and get er' fixed ~Alan

Alan, that looks like my dad right before his lower GI. He insisted to come out for my birthday. He lived close by the resturant and made it home just in time.