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Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Sun, 07 Jan 2018 14:31:52 +0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:


But if you want something approaching original on an older car, you can
multiply that a few times.



A bloke near me got his Bristol 411 *totally* re-painted to a very high
standard; it was a brilliant job they'd made of it. But it did cost him
10k.


Yup - that's more like it for a proper job. And remember few cars with
perfect bodies require a repaint. There will usually be damage of one sort
or another to be repaired first.

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