Hello everyone I got a chip on my door panel and no body shop would touch the car . Any one have any ideas who repair and repaint cars like this? Some people have suggested to repaint the whole car. The chip is the size of a dime.
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A chip in the gel coat. Should be easy fix. Find someone who fixes, corvettes, boats or dune buggies. Sure isn't worth ($5k!) to repaint the entire car. Matching silver takes some talent. There's always Vintage Motor cars in LA - about 1 1/2 hours away on good day (or they can recommend a place to repair).
Great night shot of car!
Yes I tried vantage motor sport but they told me that they were too busy for this project. I live in Victorville CA. I’m going to try someone in the OC next.
@Carlos panuco if distance isn't a factor...check out saticoy auto body,,,near ventura...this guy is a show car pro...he might want to paint from pillar to front...but maybe not...call and send him pictures...he's seen and done it all... he painted my car after it got rock chipped all across the front...and a black car is apples and oranges to a silver car which goes without saying...so there's that
...not cheap, but you get what you pay for ... "save your $$$dough$$$ and hire a pro" words to live by 
As you are finding out, a lot of shops just don't like to do fiberglass and will say 'no' or just jack up the price.
I found a good local body/paint shop for fiberglass by talking to the garage that does most of the high end work on dune buggies.
I found the garage by asking on the VW group page on FacePlant and the dune buggy guys at Cars and Coffee. They know.
No body shop is going to bother with a small chip like that. Find out what the code is for your paint, and order a small bottle of touch up paint.
Carefully build up that area coat by coat. Once it's done, no one will ever notice it.
Right now, it's the size of the grand canyon to you because you are aware of it and it's gnawing away at you.
This most likely won't be the only chip your car gets.
Thank you I’ll be reaching out to them .
This should not require a complete repaint, especially if you are OK with the patch (a very small thing) ending up maybe just a little off. Probably would be only you who knows. The main idea is to seal up the exposed FG. Further suggestion. If you end up getting the front repainted, because of this and maybe because of an accumulation of dings and chips at the front (road rash), my advice is to then get a plastic protective film (PPF) applied. I had a serious road hazard ding at the front fender that turned out to be an insurance job. The fix was to sand and repaint the whole front end plus frunk lid back to the front door seams, up to the windshield. after that was done by a top notch shop Ihad to let the paint cure for a good while (6 weeks or more) then had a premiere film shop cover all that new paint with the film. That cost was OOP for me, and was not cheap. But now: no more road rash. Looks fabulous. Cleans up perfectly. CA folks here surely can recommend the right film shop. Filming is a curious art, ,and not everyone can do it. The guy I used here in MD has an national reputation, and has cars sent to him from all over. He did a great job, charged a lot of money, and said he'd never seen a Speedster before, and all those sensuous curves were a proper challenge.
@Bob: IM S6 posted:No body shop is going to bother with a small chip like that. Find out what the code is for your paint, and order a small bottle of touch up paint.
Carefully build up that area coat by coat. Once it's done, no one will ever notice it.
Right now, it's the size of the grand canyon to you because you are aware of it and it's gnawing away at you.
This most likely won't be the only chip your car gets.
Second.
Any full service marina will have a fiberglass guy - they'd make short work of that.
Bill
I had the same thing happen on my glass bodied street rod. My pin striping buddy was able to match my black paint and after some prep, a few strokes of the brush and it disappeared like magic. He always jokes that his work it just "smoke and mirrors" !
Most importantly you need to have an exact match touch if you are doing this yourself. Silver metallic is almost impossible to do as a build up with a brush touch up as the darker metallics tend to draw together making it way too dark...... How I do these is tape off at the edge of the chip, a dab of body filler then sand even 220 -320-400, ( use very light sand strokes or you'll be redoing it) then a dab gray primer and allow to dry. Remove the tape, clean the area well cut a 3/4" - 1" oval shaped hole in a piece of thin cardboard and hold that 1" - 1-1/ 2" from the primed area, lightly spray ( Prevail spray bottle available online or Sherman Williams stores.) two thin coats of color and stop. Let that set up 30 minutes then spray two light layers of clear onto the area. Let that dry 48 hours and do a light compound / polish it will turn out close.to perfect .
I think Alan knows what he's talking about - more so than I do.
:-)
Thank you everyone it does bother me tremendously. You know these speedsters are very special to us. We want them looking flow less . Mine won a trophy on it’s first car show.
That sprayer Alan mentioned looks like a fantastic tool that a number of us could really use - Both for our cars and other projects, too!
https://preval.com/diy-pro-products/preval-sprayer/
Slow and steady doing this wins the race. 
from 20 feet no one will notice but the expert. Using an expert can get it reallllllll close.
Hello everyone I got great news . I’m posting inf on the guy that restores and paints all the speedster for vintage motors. If you need anything done on your car. Good luck.
I look at rock chips and other imperfections caused by routine driving as "badges of honor". I know, the first one is tough. But that should encourage you to drive 1,000 more miles to see if you can add another.
Interesting. Great way to see things .
Have you not heard about the guy who bought a new car. It was probably one of the big threes and he was so OCD for scratches and dings and everything else that he took a hammer and hit the hood clearly where he could see the ding ….. cured him
ummm Paco , never heard of him but it looks like a good guy to know ,
I will stop by there next time i am in the OC
Lol
lol that’s me.
Merklin The Magician knows ...
