Well, I'm slowly working my way around my P6, going from mostly solid but somewhat neglected to 'nice user' in the process. Currently busy sorting out the interior - mostly dried out leather and dirt, plus it'll want new carpets at one point - and when that's done, the last big remaining job is the exterior appearance.
It's not bad, but at some point the car has been resprayed and whoever did it managed to do a quick blowover job without paying much attention to unnecessary details. Like colour matches, or getting the paint to actually stick to the car.
As the car will need a door and a wing plus repair to the two rear wings (usual place just underneath the lights) at one point in the not too distant future anyway. Given that the car is pretty nice and original the first thought of course was to have it resprayed in its original colour.
And that got me thinking. The car currently sports the oh-so-popular-back-then yukky brown, sorry, Mexico Brown paintwork. And I don't like that. However, I *do* like the dark reds like Venetian red that these cars were available in.
So, what's the general feeling here? Stick to the original colour and rather buy one that's the right colour and start all over again, or is it permissible to respray it in an other period Rover colour without inviting vigilante action?
Thanks,
FC, having a lot of questions at the moment
It's not bad, but at some point the car has been resprayed and whoever did it managed to do a quick blowover job without paying much attention to unnecessary details. Like colour matches, or getting the paint to actually stick to the car.
As the car will need a door and a wing plus repair to the two rear wings (usual place just underneath the lights) at one point in the not too distant future anyway. Given that the car is pretty nice and original the first thought of course was to have it resprayed in its original colour.
And that got me thinking. The car currently sports the oh-so-popular-back-then yukky brown, sorry, Mexico Brown paintwork. And I don't like that. However, I *do* like the dark reds like Venetian red that these cars were available in.
So, what's the general feeling here? Stick to the original colour and rather buy one that's the right colour and start all over again, or is it permissible to respray it in an other period Rover colour without inviting vigilante action?
Thanks,
FC, having a lot of questions at the moment