How much should I expect to pay to have my e9 repainted

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Thinking of having my vehicle repainted from Black to a fun color (bmw period of course). Was quoted $6500 to do it, barring any rust repair or other work needed that is revealed. No real apparent rust showing, but there is one spot that is coming up.

Is this reasonable?

Wondering what color to paint. It was not originally black so I don't feel bad changing it.

Also, I want to change to the chrome bumpers while I do this. Can you point me to best options?

Thanks.

Scott
 
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I didn't have any rust either until they took the paint off. That being said, better to know the cancer and cut it out than spending 10k and having rust bubbles show up in a few years.
 
Scott,
A friend of mine had his xk120 painted for under $2k and it looks fabulous. But he did all the prep himself (remove all trim/glass, strip old paint, fix dents etc, 1 coat of primer). And he reassembled himself. If he had just dropped off a complete car it might have cost $8k. $6800 seems like a total steal if it's a proper color change paint job where they strip 99 % of the trim off the car (incl engine/ancillary removal and stripping the engine bay and trunk of all major components bits/fittings). A proper color change requires removing all glass and exterior trim too. I'd guess there's 16 hours of labor to pull all this stuff out/off and a little more to reinstall. Please let us know what shop you got the quote from as it is cheap enough to justify shipping the car out there if you are in a high cost part of the country.

Bumper swap to 1973 or earlier requires a set of bumpers amd brackets ($2k -$5k for nice to restored parts) and maybe 4-6 hours of misc body work to close up old holes and make new ones.
 
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