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1988 Convertible for sunny day drives
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<blockquote data-quote="Tourmax" data-source="post: 171812" data-attributes="member: 5304"><p>As good as pictures may make it look, the car is a 20 footer at best. The paint has chips and nicks as well as more "swirlies" than the small kids in high school ever saw!</p><p></p><p>Ok, grab the rotary buffer and went at the hood. After a couple hours of cutting and buffing, it's looks pretty good. It's not perfect, but pretty good. Another round of cutting and buffing should have it back to that deep wet look.</p><p></p><p>Rock chips are what they are. I touch them up as best I can and just accept it.</p><p></p><p>The car has been resprayed at least once, as evidenced by the sealant on the body lowers being body color paint.</p><p></p><p>the body kit is actually a real "Greenwood" kit as opposed to some generic aftermarket kit. Greenwood was a corvette racer in the 70's and he opened a shop to make Corvette parts. Like today's "tuners". they did bodywork, engines, suspensions, etc. This is just a full kit you could order and install. The seller tried to say it was a "dealer installed option", but it's still no different than what the average schmuck could buy and install themselves. No RPO for it, so it's no different than the dealer selling you different rims, floor mats, etc. I'm back and forth on the body kit. Looks a little "ricer" to me, the rear wing being the worst part. But I'm also stuck with it. If I were to pull it off, the paint woudl be different because of the re-spray and the rear fascia woule have holes in the top where the wing is bolted on. Oh well, it could be worse I guess.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tourmax, post: 171812, member: 5304"] As good as pictures may make it look, the car is a 20 footer at best. The paint has chips and nicks as well as more "swirlies" than the small kids in high school ever saw! Ok, grab the rotary buffer and went at the hood. After a couple hours of cutting and buffing, it's looks pretty good. It's not perfect, but pretty good. Another round of cutting and buffing should have it back to that deep wet look. Rock chips are what they are. I touch them up as best I can and just accept it. The car has been resprayed at least once, as evidenced by the sealant on the body lowers being body color paint. the body kit is actually a real "Greenwood" kit as opposed to some generic aftermarket kit. Greenwood was a corvette racer in the 70's and he opened a shop to make Corvette parts. Like today's "tuners". they did bodywork, engines, suspensions, etc. This is just a full kit you could order and install. The seller tried to say it was a "dealer installed option", but it's still no different than what the average schmuck could buy and install themselves. No RPO for it, so it's no different than the dealer selling you different rims, floor mats, etc. I'm back and forth on the body kit. Looks a little "ricer" to me, the rear wing being the worst part. But I'm also stuck with it. If I were to pull it off, the paint woudl be different because of the re-spray and the rear fascia woule have holes in the top where the wing is bolted on. Oh well, it could be worse I guess..... [/QUOTE]
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