If a car has been repainted, it's a respray. Not sure why this has some extra meaning to you(?). In fact, from your own description it was not a top-shelf job, just the outer surfaces resprayed. Original paint cars in good condition will
always be worth more than repainted ones. Back in "the good old days", when mint condition early 911s were available at all times in the back of Pano or Hemmings, the words "no paintwork" were commonly seen to indicate 100% factory paint.
Those days are long gone. Besides the obvious run-up in prices, the quality of used early 911s available for sale has taken a precipitous dump. Everything is either restored on a budget or a "project". Your car is above average in the current garbage market but people calling it a #2 car simply don't have a clue how the rating system works. FWIW, Hagerty did not invent the rating system for collector cars.
I know that you did not buy the car to flip. Just for the fun of it, what did you originally pay for it? $5k? $6?
