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Thanks Len, now to find a BMW in the hood to hone my skills :-)

Maybe best to just leave alone, or trust to a pro.

So you drop good money on car, and the finish sucks. Lexuz, BMW, others, it does not matter, most finishes are terrible. I have a 2012 Z4 silver BMW that has orange peel. Thankfully the color does...

Len, no it is not. This was definitely a quality control issue. That door should never had made it to a finished product. That said, the door was a replacement for the original damaged door, and...

The door I am having a problem with was from a later model of the TR. The '73's and earlier, all the way back to the TR4's had these slits on each end of the door in the center of the widow channel....

Here is my problem on the door I applied a new skin to then painted and all that good stuff.

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Notice that the window opening is larger at the rear then the front. This gap was not caused...

I moved this to collision repair. Henry or others can delete this if they see fit.

A tr6 with all the stuff striped off the body, the interior gone, no dash, no electrical, no glass in the doors, no wind screen, all the crap out of the engine compartment, and the engine and...

Brian, thanks for the concern. It is an OEM skin, or at least fromoriginall stampings, just like the one I put on in the photo. They are well made and fit like a champ.

There are other parts for...

At $100 an hour that is 85 hours of work.

Perhaps the question should have been how many hours to do the work, than set what your time is worth to you to come up with a price.

Disassembly and...

Put other parts under it. Sorry, I just could not help myself.

I would assume the cost of the materials is immaterial to the cost of labor to remove old chrome, then fix imperfections, then shoot...

I believe it is this stuff, or similar...
http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/spray-on-chrome/1232328

Here is a product list..

http://www.sprayonchrome.com/equipment.html

Thanks Len, I learned a lot from what you provide here.

In answer to your question, I do not have a garage, so when I started this project I built a temporary shed (seven years ago) that was big...

Henry, here is the progress so far...
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb247/tr6oldtimer/TR6%20Body%20Painting/P8120003-Copy.jpg...

The body panel alignment on a TR6 was never that great. On first glance, the door gaps may look large when compared to other vehicles. On the six, the rear frame flexes, which will close the gap at...

Len, thanks for your response. The door is sound, and where the rust is I can easily get to it, well, most of it. The outer surface of the door, especially around the handle is a bit bunged, but it...

Below is a photo of a door off my TR6. It has be sanded down and smoothed to the metal. As you will note there is a lot of highs and lows as evidenced by the remaining paint.

The original...

On the rust thing. As stated, you never get rid of it once it has started. I have seen 'completely restored' vintage cars showing signs of rust. If you park them in climate controlled garages,...

I have completed ed all the painting and finish except for one door, one front fender, and the hood. The hood will be the last as I am a bit concerned with how well I can get it smooth. I tend to...

That P3000 paper is really nice and works like a champ.

I use PPG and DPLF. The BC can go over the DPLF if applied within the one week window. However, this primer cannot be sanded within that period. I know this from the school of 'shouldn't have done...

Len, I hate this machine. Now that I have it, I will be going over other parts of the car I thought I had sanded well.

This little beauty is a real labor saver, and once I learned not to wet sand...

You just want to see if I weeded the yard.

Thanks for the feed back on ZeroRust, and yes, unless I wreck the car, it will be around after both of us are gone.

So when the weather stops wanting...