Re: [FWDLK] A THOUGHT TO PONDER....

Could one of the "paintless" dent removal places fix those minor bumps and still let you retain the original paint? I understand that they are pretty good at getting hail and door dings out without disturbing the paint.

Larry (Akron)

   Good question, and one I have been pondering myself.

   I have a 66 Coronet cop car with 39,000 on the odo. In every respect, the car looks like a one-year-old car except one, the granny that drove it last managed to put a ding or small dent in every panel except the roof. Nothing bad, nothing crunchy. The original paint is still bright and shiney. So what do you do ? Leave it as an unmolested survivor or fix the dings and bury that original paint ?

   My opinion is to fix a car as "needed". Leave the rest as is. My 56 Dodge NEEDS the tank pulled and the fuel system rebuilt. It NEEDS an interior restoration - it is in rags. Lesser "needs" are some floor rust repair and chrome work. I consider correct size bias whitewalls to be mandatory equipment and this will be the first thing I do to the car. In my eyes, finned cars riding on the lower profile radials look like "sub-prime" all the way. It is just something I refuse to compromize on. I may repaint the car at some point, but the paint has been redone before, so nothing original lost there.

But this old cop car has me stumped. I guess I am in no hurry, so I can think about it for a while yet.

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