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#1 Changing the colour
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 5:25 pm
by PhilP
Has anybody had any experience or changed the colour of there car. I've seen a good genuine car but not in the colour I want its red and I would like silver as it seems to shrink the 2+2 silhouette I know it's impossible to put a price to it but has anybody got a ball park figure and any recommendations on where to get it done
Thanks
Phil
#2
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 5:30 pm
by David Oslo
Ask Angus, he'll give you a ballpark figure.
#3
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 5:32 pm
by Heuer
To do it properly means a complete strip down and back to bare metal. You will end up restoring the entire car at huge cost. A good paint job on a sound shell will cost you ?10k. Try it any other way and you will devalue the car enormously. You could of course consider a vinyl wrap in the colour of your choice. Lots of companies offering the service and you can return the car to original relatively easily.
#4
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 5:33 pm
by JagWaugh
Doing it right isn't going to be cheap, even if you don't develop shipwrights disease.
#5
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 5:34 pm
by mgcjag
Hi Phil.....you meed to give a bit more detail.....are you looking for a complete strip down, doors ,bonnet boot all off engine bay stripped......Top quality job or what..? ..Steve
#6
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 5:39 pm
by David Oslo
Last year I got quoted ?14K in the UK for a turnkey exterior and under bonnet job, strip down (chrome, lamps, screens, hardware etc, engine out), strip off paint, sanding filler & paint, re-assembly.
I ended up doing the whole thing myself, with just a local lad doing the exterior clearcoat in his booth. I have my own booth with pucka filters and fans, but no heating element, which is crucial at this time of the year.
My outlay was around ?3-4K in materials, and several hundred hours of work during the summer. Which you can either consider to be free, and/or to equate to the missing ?10K (200hrs x 50 quid/hr).
#7
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2015 6:47 pm
by PhilP
Thanks for the replies I still might go down this route as I've only seen one silver 2+2 for sale and this hadn't been painted that well. Is the silver or gunmetal grey a commonly used colour from new on the 2+2 I've seen plenty off FHC and convertibles in these colours.
Phil
#8
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 7:28 am
by David Oslo
Don't know common it is, but my Dec 1966 S1 2+2 is now Opalescent Gunmetal Grey (was Pale Primrose). I considered the Silvers also. Same dilemma as Chris Rooke had in his book.
#9
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 8:09 am
by mgcjag
Just do a Google search silver e type 2+2 and u will find some
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=silse ... e&ie=UTF-8
#10
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 8:14 am
by neil4444
Hi Phil,
You can search xkedata.com on either original or current external colour.
Regards,
#11
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 9:42 am
by trondvo
David Oslo wrote:Don't know common it is, but my Dec 1966 S1 FHC is now Opalescent Gunmetal Grey (was Pale Primrose). I considered the Silvers also. Same dilemma as Chris Rooke had in his book.
Cool combination David, my first E-type (1995) had that color and was 2+2 with automatic (ex USA). Sold it a year later to get into a '65 FHC. Still regret, it was in fantastic condition w greenish leather interior. I still think the nuance was a bit more "greenish" than op.gunmetal though. I think it resides in Lillestr?m now.
Nesbyen, Hallingdal ca 1995.
#12
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 9:46 am
by David Oslo
Yeah, there's someone in Lillestr?m who has been trying to sell a Metalifacture 2+2 jack for about a year. Each time the ad comes out for a new 60 days the price has gone up. Now it's at ?400. Maybe that's from your old car :D
Lovely picture, btw !