jim and cindy sawyer

["Skipper Landry" <sk1pper@xxxx>]

 well from what ive learned, stripping the car is the easy part. i did it
in less than 20 hours total: including cleanup! straightining out the grain
is another matter. i am having to hand polish mine to get the grain correct.
and even then it will not be perfect. However, if painting it is what you
want to do, youre i luck, sorta . . . When doing the research to strip the
car, the only advice i got was to repaint it any color i wanted. repainting
a DeLorean is as hard/easy as any other car if the origional was done in any
sorta quality way.

History lesson one:
since this is a different kinda car, not many automobile
mechanics/repair shops knew what to do to fix them, aside from replacing
parts. there ate two types of painted DeLoreans: 1) ones painted by order of
the dealers by way of customer orders or to get them off the lot at the end
of the production run. 2) ones that have been in accidents, as mine was. in
any case you will find one of two things when dealing with the paint.

if the car has not been painted becayse of an accident, the car was
GROUND rough to accept a standard primer and paint. if the car was painted
mid to late '80's, the paint probably was put on with self-etching primer
whish did not require grinding.

the short of it is that all the hard work has been done unless the paint
was done bad to start. in my experience, if your son wants to repaint the
car it should not be any harder than any other to repaint. in fact since the
panels are just bolted to the pontoon, he can test paint a fender off the
car in a few hours to see how it works out! i had a plan, if the SS was too
bad, i'd paint it back! it was worth the risk to know for sure all i could
about my car.

i will soon post pictures of my hood that has polished and unfinished
sides to it. hope this helps some!

skipper landry

ps please leave an e-mail address for the future :) 

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> Dear Sir,
> Well I have the same problem. Red paint on my machine to paint or not to
paint that is the question!!!!
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> My son is learning how to paint cars at a tecnical college and can't wait
to paint the car in some other color. But from what he says it is just as
much of a pain in rear end as it would be to just strip the paint.
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> Any thoughts?
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> Jim and Cindy Sawyer
> vin 4149
> "ELMO" cause it is red
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