I'm just going to copy and paste what I wrote on another forum when this happened on Thanksgiving...don't feel like going over it again, too much mental anguish lol.

The short version is I'm looking for THE BEST darned body shop in VA, would be nice if it's in the Hampton Roads area. If there is no such thing as an amazing shop around here I'll go to the shop I know and have used down in Charlotte, NC where I used to live. The shop must use Glasurit paint.

.......

I cannot friggin believe this. I spent $7k having a factory color paint job at a primo shop using Glasurit on my car (well, and the front windsheild and the back glass were part of that price). I was saving up for a programmable warm up regulator (the last part needed to get the modified engine I put in the car running perfectly) because I had spent every single last penny I have on my baby. It was painted just one year ago. I garage the car, wash it every week, and wax it every month.

Today, some [expletive deleted] t-boned it while it was parked. So, now I'm going to have to sell a gun or two to get it fixed. Some minor damage on the front passenger door lower molding and the rear door is shot, paint scratched but more importantly the door is curved into the car about a foot, it's done. Welcome home for Thanksgiving I guess.

So, is there a good, and by good I mean exceptional shop in VA, preference for Hampton Roads area? It is an absolute requirement that the shop use glasurit and that the shop be intimately familiar with 1980's Mercedes and only use factory parts. If not, I'll drive it to the shop that did the repaint in NC, but it'd be nice if I didn't have to do that.

I guess I'll be selling my rifles to pay for it. I realize that I just said I spent every penny I had on the thing, but I have saved up most of the way towards the programmable warm up regulator and my rifles are worth a decent amount, I want the best darn shop there is, and if there isn't one in VA I'll go out of the state. I don't want good or good for the money, I want amazing.

Son of a gun. That car is my everything. I love that car more than people love their children. If someone said that smashing my left hand with a hammer (so I could still shift from park to D) would magically fix it, I'd be smashing my left hand with a hammer right now.

 

What kind of car.
I know it's a Mercedes but what model? Anything special other than being your girlfriend?

I guess it was a hit and run because you're talking about having to pay for it.
I don't know about a $7k paint job on a 80's Mercedes. I wouldn't do it. That's just me.
Maybe someone here can guide you. There's tons of body shops around here but only a few good ones.


GL

 

Uh, it's just an 85 S-Class...and it's my wife, not my girlfriend. I'm in this for the long haul

Well...it's an 85 S-Class (it was an 85 380SE) with some minor suspension mods, a custom exhaust built by a shop that builds nextel cup car and NHRA car exhausts (oh, the wonder of living in Charlotte, NC, to have those again would be something), and a modified Mercedes motor that earned it the moniker of "the wickedest Mercedes I ever saw" (consider that they do a lot of AMGs) from one of the guys who did the original paint job. And, fwiw, when you modify an old Benz that means you have a lot of custom built parts that will probably never be made again for anybody else.

Pro Pixel Photography....did you used to post on the Fred Miranda forums? I seem to recall the name. Or maybe it was just dpreview.

 

Ohh.
Well that's a nice looking car.

GL with everything.






Maybe but it's been years since the last time I posted on those sites.

 

You don't know that until you see it:
(no, I don't live next to a dumpster in a ratty neighborhood, that's the car washing area of my apartment complex)

I haven't posted on those forums in years either - once Fred started charging to use the Classifieds forum I figured he can keep it for himself.

 

greenbrier colission center

/amazing

 

+1

 

i dunno about that. I know a few people that work there now. paint and body shop side, good guys but the work is SO-SO. and alot of people that have worked there before LOL some BS workers.

Glasurit paint is good but it has afew differnt product lines. It depends on if your doing prodution paint or custom paint all overs. The clear is very NICE might I add all LINES like R-M and the 55 Line, Glasurit BASF.


MIKES PAINT & BODY #1 in HAMPTON ROADS prodution SHOP by far

o im not gonna go into details and interTHUGG with you people. id get but in a postion of the loss of my job if I was to POST a print out of the cycle time and rating of Mikes Paint &BODY from the insurance reports


the car does look good did you get the door jambs painted also. if so how clean are the tape lines in the jam ... IF you have tape lines in the jams WOW you spend to much money !!!!! I would had the door taken off the car and did the BODY and Jams all at 1 time. with the door lay flat and HOOD /Truck off also...... R&I everything if people know what that is LOL

 

stock or modified bodyworks, vb. 301-8490. check out vendor reviews in the vendor review forum, theres at least 5 of them.

 

Hi-Dust Body Shop in Chesapeake