The last one I recall seeing on the road was in Savannah about 17 years ago. It was hand painted, with brushstrokes visible from 20 feet away. Evidently it had been crashed, and instead of getting new body panels they hammered and bondo'd it back into an approximation of its original form, then painted it.
[The last one I recall seeing on the road was in Savannah about 17 years ago. It was hand painted, with brushstrokes visible from 20 feet away. Evidently it had been crashed, and instead of getting new body panels they hammered and bondo’d it back into an approximation of its original form, then painted it.]
New body panels would have cost an arm and a leg and then some, given that it hasn’t been in production for decades and wasn’t exactly a high volume vehicle back in the day. Still, given the amount of work (and presumably $) put into the body, I’d have expected at least one of those $300 Maaco paint jobs.