So, this happened - seeking advice from painters, please!

[NJRR]

She looks GREAT !!!!! Glad to see her back. So, did Haggerty cover all that work? Was it a supplemental?

 

[eldubb440]

You mentioned Hagarty, problem solved..... they will easily shell out enough to fix the dent, and paint the entire side to match. Find someone who can handle it

if you have to search the planet for a super talented pdr artist.......... he aint working cheap, he may or may not achieve the desired result, and he may not even exist....... if you're gonna spend time, energy, and money; just give it a proper dent repair.
remember.... these pdr guys are fixing late model stuff on car lots, and the metal they are used to working with is pretty flimsy.... most of them are hacks, I've seen it all

lmao @ all that pdr nonsense


congrats ED.... glad it worked out in your favor!

 

[HawkRod]

Looks like the shop did right by you and went above and beyond. Be sure to give them positive reviews and forward their good name to others. Good honest bodywork folks (like @eldubb440 above) are hard to find.

 

[GetX'd]

She looks awesome and as I’ve said before - love that color too! Have you ever thought about putting the rocker moldings and stripes on her? Would really make that paint pop!

 

[moparedtn]

She looks GREAT !!!!! Glad to see her back. So, did Haggerty cover all that work? Was it a supplemental?

Hagerty covered the dent and subsequent necessary refinishing of both quarters and roof.
The body shop filed for a supplemental on the original estimate so that they could fix the drivers' side
roof seam and got some extra for that.
I paid extra to get the rockers squared away and they went ahead and did the other sides' roof seam
since "it was probably headed the same way as the drivers' side".

I was out there this evening for a while, cleaning up on the car some (not real thrilled at their cleanup guy, I must
say) and it's quite apparent they painted the entire roof down to the a-pillars, the quarters and the rockers.
Looks like everything else on the car got either some sort of tinted clear or just a buffing.

 

[moparedtn]

lmao @ all that pdr nonsense
congrats ED.... glad it worked out in your favor!

Thanks. Yeah, I pretty much knew when the dent was "oil canning" on me that the crease
was too much for a PDR type deal.

 

[moparedtn]

Looks like the shop did right by you and went above and beyond. Be sure to give them positive reviews and forward their good name to others. Good honest bodywork folks (like @eldubb440 above) are hard to find.

Yes sir, indeed. I'm big on singing praises - or yelling condemnation when earned.
Although I have a few cleanup challenges left over from their work (overspray at tape spots, along with some sort of
"film" residue in places) and they were lousy at communication and holding a deadline, I mustered up all the patience
I could (I'm not patient at all usually) and let them do their thing.
That said, I'm very thankful to have her home. I was a wreck while she was gone, surprisingly so.

Oh, almost forgot to mention....
The shop foreman reported that the car has an "amazingly good" amount of good metal in it. He says you just don't
see them that clean (as in minimal filler, etc.) and that he was surprised.
He also said word got around town and a lot of people stopped in to see her for some reason??
(That part made me nervous!)
Said several wanted to make offers on her.
If they only knew what a patchwork of mismatched stuff she really is....

Scorecard
Hagerty: A+ all the way, handled everything perfectly
Body shop: A; communication and cleanliness need work, but their work itself is VERY good
Previous owner: B-; he did manage to get good metal in the car everywhere pretty much, but
cut many corners and did some slap happy work to get the car sold

 

[NJRR]

Scorecard
Hagerty: A+ all the way, handled everything perfectly

Good to see that Hagerty handled it well. Quite a few of us use them ( me included) !!

 

[moparedtn]

Good to see that Hagerty handled it well. Quite a few of us use them ( me included) !!

I have absolutely nothing bad to report on them. They handled everything efficiently and followed up as things progressed.
Only thing left to see is how much my premium is going to go up from the claim now.

 

[The Rebel]

So glad to see she's back home where she belongs. Sounds like you got a real winner of a shop who knows their stuff on these old cars.

 

[moparedtn]

So glad to see she's back home where she belongs. Sounds like you got a real winner of a shop who knows their stuff on these old cars.

Thanky kindly.
Yeah, the dude kept saying "she's gonna get the love she needs here" over and over.

I don't want to piss on their parade, but there's some leftover residual, well, residue left at the base of the roof
on all four corners. It almost looks like collected small pools of clearcoat? Kinda like the acrylic mama used to
put on the kitchen floor, if that makes sense.
I got to get something a bit stronger than what I have to get that off.
Thinking polishing compound maybe?

 

[NJRR]

Thanky kindly.
Yeah, the dude kept saying "she's gonna get the love she needs here" over and over.

I don't want to piss on their parade, but there's some leftover residual, well, residue left at the base of the roof
on all four corners. It almost looks like collected small pools of clearcoat? Kinda like the acrylic mama used to
put on the kitchen floor, if that makes sense.
I got to get something a bit stronger than what I have to get that off.
Thinking polishing compound maybe?

Why don't you bring it over to them to remove? If you damage the clearcoat while doing it, they're off the hook.

 

[moparedtn]

Why don't you bring it over to them to remove? If you damage the clearcoat while doing it, they're off the hook.

Oh no, I'm done bringing it over to them for a while. Or ever.

 

[Hemirunner]

UPDATE 6/28/19:
She's baaaaaaack!
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Wound up, she needed a little more attention than just the self-inflicted dent!

On both rockers under the rear of the door openings, rust had stirred up and holes were present, covered only by the previous owners' quick fiberglass patches.
That got cleaned out of there and new metal patches installed.
The roof "lead" seam on drivers' side was a mess and they wound up melting out all the original lead on BOTH sides, then fabricating metal to repair those areas as well.

Finally, although Hagerty had only approved a "blending of the roof and both quarters", the body shop wound up basically repainting the entire car from behind the doors as well as the roof!

Color matching proved exact - even though I had the original Sherwin-Williams codes for the car and she'd never been outside garages much, the shop usually don't use that brand.
Well - I suspect they tried to color match with their own stuff, then found someone local who DID have S-W and blended up exact match once their attempt failed. The car wound up getting the exact same S-W paint as original.
No matter - the net result is, she looks a TON better. Very happy! ​

She's home safe and sound, after me getting heat prostration and having to outrun a couple of wicked thunderstorms.
Thank God...

Glad to hear it all worked out great for you Ed!!

 

[threewood]

Looks sharp!! I'm glad you had a painless experience. Now go drive the wheels off.

 

[moparedtn]

Glad to hear it all worked out great for you Ed!!

Thank ya brother!

Looks sharp!! I'm glad you had a painless experience. Now go drive the wheels off.

Thanks. Yes sir, that IS the plan.
I just realized she's only been to one event of any kind this summer so far!
I reckon she'll be at this one:

 

[khryslerkid]

Thanky kindly.
Yeah, the dude kept saying "she's gonna get the love she needs here" over and over.

I don't want to piss on their parade, but there's some leftover residual, well, residue left at the base of the roof
on all four corners. It almost looks like collected small pools of clearcoat? Kinda like the acrylic mama used to
put on the kitchen floor, if that makes sense.
I got to get something a bit stronger than what I have to get that off.
Thinking polishing compound maybe?

Could be where they blended the clear coat. Could be adhesion promoter. In any case, if you try to buff it off, it will leave a sharper line where the two meet. It will be more visible. They should have found a line or edge to stop instead of blending the clear coat.

I would bite the bullet and stop by their shop with it and show them what you see. Now's the time to fix it, not later.

 

[moparedtn]

Could be where they blended the clear coat. Could be adhesion promoter. In any case, if you try to buff it off, it will leave a sharper line where the two meet. It will be more visible. They should have found a line or edge to stop instead of blending the clear coat.

I would bite the bullet and stop by their shop with it and show them what you see. Now's the time to fix it, not later.

I don't think that's what it is.
Hard to explain exactly - more like random splotches of what looks like a milky/hazy, very thin plasticky substance.
I'll see if I can get the camera to capture one...


EDIT: Now that I look at it up close, it almost looks like they tried to shoot some clear over the old paint in that area and it didn't adhere?

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[khryslerkid]

I don't think that's what it is.
Hard to explain exactly - more like random splotches of what looks like a milky/hazy, very thin plasticky substance.
I'll see if I can get the camera to capture one...


EDIT: Now that I look at it up close, it almost looks like they tried to shoot some clear over the old paint in that area and it didn't adhere?
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Is it a base coat/ clear coat paint job?

 

[moparedtn]

Is it a base coat/ clear coat paint job?

Yes. As previously described, the original (11 years old!) paint job that was half-assed by the previous owner was base/clear, Sherwin-Williams paint.
I still have some leftover paint that the PO gave me, along with the original S-W paint codes.

When this body shop got the job, the Hagerty estimator figured on re-finishing both quarters and the roof, purportedly at least in part by tinting some fresh clear to help blend old into new colors.

This body shop does not use S-W paints; instead, they do water-based whatever, but he was sure he could exact match my paint using one of those high-tech scanner thingies.
Well, the rest is history as it were - the car wound up taking another week from originally promised and, lo and behold, they actually repainted both quarters, the rockers AND the roof - telling me they wound up going to another shop in the same town who does use S-W paints and having them mix some up for them.

Guy at the body shop asks me how I liked the color match. When I replied "looks exact", he said yep...
because it actually IS the same exact brand and code of paint as originally used.
He also noted it looked like the car hadn't spent much time outside in the last 11 years, which is also true - no fading of the original paint.

Anyways, they left some messy bits around the perimeter of the work areas I gotta clean up now, so there's that - but no, I'm done with body shops and all that for a while.
I've tried scratch remover and Meguire's Gold polish, both of which are zero abrasive. It took a little bit of the splotches off, but no amount of elbow grease will help further using those.
I've also used 3M Adhesive Remover under advice of my restorer friend, which helped some as well (that stuff is AWESOME when getting old, dried out/caked compound out of joints and crevasses!).

Next step I guess is to try a mild polishing compound?