Where to go to get "show quality" body work
 

If my daily driver gets scratched, I know where to go to get it painted, anywhere my insurance sends me. It's my daily driver, I could care less if the paint is slightly off a shade, or there is a fish eye in the paint etc.

But what if you have a classic car that you bring to shows that is flawless and it gets scratched. I used to know a guy in North NJ that was very trustworthy, he retired. There has to be some good places in the NJ/NY area that still perform top notch paint repairs right?

Does anyone have a reccomendation. Say the car is a 67 chevelle thats a true 138 vin 396 with 17,000 documented miles and origional and rather pristine may I say paint. Suppose it got a scratch in the hood of all places. Where does one go to have it repainted and blended so it is undetectable?

I hate to refer you to my former place of work but the body guy there was the best Id ever seen hands down.

Billybobs Fast Cars in Lakewood. 732-901-1981. Ask for Bob Russo tell em Vinnie referred you. Stupid name but the work is awesome.

Paul @ RPM does fantastic work -------> http://www.rpmrestoandcustom.com/ ------->

ive seen some of the pics he's posted of an old icebox and stroller he restored. iirc the icebox was even featured in a magazine and was epicly amazing with metal flake. some good work there :D

I've seen some good work from RPM too. Paul, how good are you with Candy Apple?

I doubt even the best will be able to make a perfect match to 46 year old paint in a blend job.

Take picture of paint, upload, comp blends paint, spray and voila?

Lil more to that in the art of blending. Also depends how far they want to go with painting to do the blend. New paint/clear won't look like old paint/clear.

Original paint is probably lacquer, too.

Was just being facetious.

No you are right. I know nothing of body work and paint so I was just thinking out loud

Yeah no doubt.

id say paul at rpm, we are gonna have him do alot to the nova. snowball effect.

Does Paul do body work as well (dents, etc..) or just paint?

Full service restoration / paint shop.

- Justin

http://www.djsrestoration.com/

my brother is the painter

I like Paul, He did a great job on my old F4i Fairings and he was super easy to deal with.

you should talk to them about being a sponsor.

Since you're in Midland Park check out The Body Works in Midland Park. The owner's name is Sam, daughter in the office is Sammi and most of their work is restorations. They are family friends and I worked for them in high school.

http://www.bworks.biz/

The guys are right...blending paint that old is close to impossible to pull off perfectly. Honestly I don't do many blends because I'm never happy with the end result no matter how good it looks.