original paint vs car value?

[rtviper]

How important is it to retain the same color on a turbo regal that it came with from the factory? In some collectable cars the exact paint it came from the factory with is important to the resale value. If one has a nice low mile t-regal but wants a black paint job is he killing the resale value of that model by painting the car black? The car is low mile but has many mods including a stage II motor installed so its far from original

[gnturboray]

What do you want to do with the car? If you plan on keeping it,,do with want you want,,,,or is it an investment?

[AZ Vic]

Originally posted by rtviper
How important is it to retain the same color on a turbo regal that it came with from the factory? In some collectable cars the exact paint it came from the factory with is important to the resale value. If one has a nice low mile t-regal but wants a black paint job is he killing the resale value of that model by painting the car black? The car is low mile but has many mods including a stage II motor installed so its far from original

If you have gone stage II, I would think original color no longer matters. Just make sure the new paint is done right.

Vic

[evil_gn]

personally when i was looking for another car, i wanted a re-paint. its a pain in the azz to take care of original paint and keep it looking like new.

[Red Regal T]

Car's not original, so the idea of originality has no significance. Owner says, "car has original paint"........prospective buyer says to himself, "yeah, looks like $hit".

[87buick3825]

Original paint on a stock unmolested car will bring more $$$$ . Look at older Camaro's an Vette's .

RD

[DougsfastZ]

I'm slowly modding mine, but I have 90% of the original parts, so I'm keeping my original paint, and proud of it

Doug D

[cwelk87gn]

The problem I see with the original paint on the mid 80's GM cars is that it sucked when it was new and now, nearly 20 years later, they haven't gotten better with time. My GN has had the top, hood and decklid repainted and it looks great from 10 ft away and to the average person, but people that know can tell it needs a repaint. Unless your paint job is absolutly perfect, I wouldn't worry too much

[GNregistry]

I talked to local paint shop, asked what he thought. He said the paint looks good on my GN, if I want to repaint, they can do it. My 87 GN is original with 36k miles.

He said that they could put in 10 - 20 hours just on the doors getting it ready. Now multiply by the entire body of the car and the price can get pretty large. Then what happens when you drive it?? Back to being a freak about babysitting it. Vicous cycle...

I still have original paint and freak driving it and then parking it when I go out in public, even when I park in the back back 40 where no one would ever park by AND guess what they park 6 inches from my driver side so I have to go in through passenger door! Honest Truth, it happened!

I know some cars have bad paint jobs, meaning GN's, but not all of them were that bad. Another point is Black is damn hard to hide all marks, especially swirl marks and natural wear and tear from age and use.

driver side photo view http://www.gnregistry.org/images/June15_016.jpg taken last summer June 15, 2004

[87buick3825]

Lots of car clubs that have shows have a seperate class for "original" cars . Most cars that are "restored" are way better than new . Oh I think Buick used roller's to paint our car's

RD