Good As New

21 May Good As New

Let’s head back to the body shop to see what’s been going on while we strip and prep the Porsche 914.

Okay, so we’re going a bit out of order on these blog posts. This next car actually came into the shop for its job prior to the full-on effort to strip and prep the 914, but since we didn’t want to overload you all on the same content over several consecutive days, we figured this would be good for the interim. Either way, Rich brought in his Z4 to have a panel dent removed. He’d taken a hit just behind his driver’s side wheel in the front, and since there isn’t much in the way of support behind the fender, the blemish showed pretty easily. There aren’t any pictures of the first step, which was a pulling-out of the dent after removing the badges, so let’s just skip right to the second step, which is treating the panel with filler and following the contours of the panel to make sure things like wheel arch shapes are preserved.

From there, the rest of the panel is sanded and the whole front fender is prepped for the booth.

A few passes in the booth later, and she’s out, ready for a quick buff and the reinstallation of the sidemarker and 3.0i badges.

And here she is during the final inspection, hanging halfway out of the body shop’s garage. The second picture doesn’t really give you a good idea of the fender, but it’s a nice looking picture so we included it anyway.

With the final thumbs-up given, we pulled it up to the front of the building and waited for Rich to come and pick ‘er up. Rich loved it, so you’ll be bound to see this car back on the nearby roads in the coming weeks — after all, it’s utterly beautiful outside, and looks to be that way until well past Memorial Day. Summer’s almost here, everybody, get ready.

And just because he hasn’t entered the “Awkward Pictures on The Blog” club yet, here’s a picture of Kyle doing something undoubtedly shady. What is he doing that’s so shady? We aren’t ready to give it away…yet.