[962porsche]

Originally Posted by drcoastline

Hi lifeon2whls welcome from a fellow 74 targa owner. Sorry about the passing of your father but it is great to hear you and he had a bond and he left you something you both enjoyed to remember him by.

First we don't know what abilities you have so it is hard to say how much you can do to help reduce the cost. That being said anything you can do should help reduce the cost. By far the largest cost in a good-great repaint is labor. A great paint job is all in the preparation. Removing parts vs. taping them off, fairing the panels, fixing rust spots, etc. Some show cars can take hundreds even thousands of man hours to prep for paint. The actual painting and cost of the paint is minimal in comparison to the labor to prep the car for paint.

You could easily strip the car down yourself. Remove the seals, glass, handles, trim, latches, etc. Removing the parts is easy, putting everything back is the hard part. It is just going to be time consuming and maybe a little costly putting things back. Inevitably you will need to buy some new things like top seals, gaskets, etc. Some parts just can not be reused as the removal process will destroy them. Others will be worn beyond being able to be reused or accidentally damaged while being removed. Some things you are going to say just look bad up against that shiny new paint like the targa bar to top seal.

Only you can determine the weight of your time vs. paying someone to do it. The one factor you can not measure is the satisfaction you get of doing it yourself.

LOL FAIRING I know your a boater but now every one else also knows it too using the word fairing . nothing wrong with it just funny