Got some quotes yesterday and it's looking like a $1500-$1700 job. I am going to push the measure with ins. to have them wetsand and buff/polish the entire car when the new paintwork is done. That should allow for a better matchup and hopefully whiten up the old paint a bit. We'll see what they say when the time comes.
I am also getting done: sideskirts, door handles, and rear bumper embossing smoothed out. To you body guys, whats the best thing to use to have the embossing filled in? Both shops didn't want to touch it because they said the bondo would shrink. Whats the correct material to use? Anyway, after all that stuff is done, I'll be finished on the outside, save for a new hood... TBD'd
After I get her back, it's going straight to the garage. I have a lot of things I want to get finished up before my powerplant swap... Doing a hubswap with Cobra brakes and white Miglias w/ dunlop 245/275. Then on to a full black interior like the old car inculding: Mystic Cobra steering wheel, shifter, and handbrake all wrapped in black suede with white stiching, Corbeau TRS in black micro suede, some sort of awesome dash pieces?, fully dynamatted, rear seat delete with amp rack, new tint job @ 20% all around, new VIPER alarm/remote start, and maybe finish off the stereo to a double DIN navi unit and some Infinity componets. Whew, thats a lot of work!
Anyway, it will basically finish off the car save for the drivetrain. I am hopeful to address that after the first of the year... goal is on the streets by may of 2010.
-Joel