Can anyone recommend a good paint and body shop in the Central Florida area that can put the GSX paint scheme on my Arctic White GS? Any guess at the price I should expect to pay? My paint is in excellent condition and the rear spoiler is in place on the rear deck. It would be nice if I could find a shop that has done it before.
Id be prepared for $2k if a quality shop does the work. Last X I painted I added $1500 for stripes but I was also.painting the whole car for close to $10k so I.had room.to back up on the stripe price. Its very time consuming and flat out a pain in the arse to get them rite with no.bleed thru, arch on the fender, and usually where the door and fender meet it puts up a fight. Although im OCD and will do redo something that anyone else wouldn't worry about
Several years ago, my brother had a local bodyshop owned by a friend of his, paint the GSX stripes on his stratomist '72 GS. It required 8 hours of labour (taping, painting, and clearcoating) to complete the job.
Ray, If you can bring it down to S. Florida, there is a guy named Luke in Boca Raton. He owns a GS and I listed as a vendor at buickperformanceclub.com. I was going to have him do mine but my car purchase fell thru. HEctor
I don't mind driving to South Fla as I'm from Miami originally. Can you PM or email me Luke's contact info, please?
Ray, I saw this on another thread; thought you MAY be interested; dunno. For a non permanent install, just in case... Ryans-GSX Have fun, life is short. <dl class="userstats" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-left: 0px; float: right; width: 150px; box-shadow: none !important;"><dt style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; box-shadow: none !important;">Join Date</dt><dd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-shadow: none !important;">Feb 2003</dd><dt style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; box-shadow: none !important;">Location</dt><dd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-shadow: none !important;">Greensboro, N.C.</dd><dt style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; box-shadow: none !important;">Posts</dt><dd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-shadow: none !important;">2,102</dd></dl> Re: gsx stripe The stencil kit is well worth the money to get it correctly put on. They also make a very nice decal set for the GSX and all you paint is the hood.
Thanks, I had seen that one but had lost track of it. That would be a lower cost option and several people have used it successfully. I'll save the post this time.
I appreciate the info i've been able to glean from in this discussion. i plan to use the decals from pgraphics on my 71" skylark restoration. my request would be for the dimensions of the stripes that we will need to paint on the hood. i will be painting them on a skylark custom hood. thanks guys
here is a place that offer a decal and a stensil for the stripe, with the decal there is no painting involved. just put the decal on as you did when you built model airplanes.Performance Graphics of lake Norman 704-896-1855 find out and let me know.Ken
Pardon the dust on the car (and the wheels are not my taste) but here is my old car the new owner painted it while then used this $270 decal kit to add the stripes... I cannot find the link to where he bought the decals but it was WAY cheaper than painting them on.
Is that K&N air filters in place of the inner headlights? I'd love to see a pic of how he hooked them up to the air cleaner inside the engine bay. Neat. :gp:
Sorry i dont have a picture of under the hood since he added those air cleaners, it is a twin turbocharged 350 Buick setup just like mine so picture 4" alum ducting going straight forward from the turbos to the air cleaner. I have not seen them yet but he had custom bezels made to hide the filters, basically fake headlights to disguise the filters. Picture my setup here with 4" alum extensions to put the filters at the headlights:
