Hi,

I am in the process soon of stripping my bug and painting it.

But...

My friends keep saying "NOOOOOOO don't paint it Pink".
They say it will effect the re-sale value in years to come if I wanted to sell it, but I have had my heart set on a nice metallic paint with a pearl. I also don't want it to bee too much of a head turner.

Do you think it will make it difficult to sell?

a nice paint job can make it easier to sell, some colours will make it harder to sell as u are only aiming at a certain market but still i dont think it will make it harder to sell if u change the colour. just do it properly and it wont be an issue..


steff......

mmmm..................I disagree

A standard colour beetle will be much easier to sell than a custom colour

A color change is also much harder to do.
Really needs to be a bare metal spray. Trying to get in all the vents is next to impossible.
A colour change where you open the doors and see different colour looks cheap and will definitely lower value

Yous is a curved screen 1303 and it is even harder with that dash

You are up for $5k - 10k for a decent spray.
Spend that money else where

Yeah, it will be bare metal once Im through with it. My father use to work on VW's 45years ago and is a spray painter and a old fashioned panel beater. I will be preparing it for the paint job.

Paint is only original once. At least keep it original colour if you must paint it.

if you're doing a good job it shouldn't matter. i'd say pink would be hard to resell even if it was a first class job... although in saying that people seem to manage to sell their pink geminis haha

Painting it pink will take thousands of dollars off the resale value, but if it's what you want then do it! You don't do up old cars for resale value. Even if you have to give it away for free at the end, it's still cheaper than depreciation on a new car!

My 2cents,buy a copy of uniqe cars,Throughbred and Cssic Cars etc and thumb thru the for sale stuff.The price scale for cars at the top is unrestored orignal and its all down hill from there.But its your car you can do what you want,but does the car warrant a "complete" strip and rebuild?it dosen't look to bad in the photos.

Consider some neat side striping or painted pin strips in pink. That way the main colour, white or whatever will cover more people for resale? Look into some classic VW car pics. Blue and white. Apricot and cream. Don't go Metallica unless you really have to its not a new car and metallics are more 70s to 80s and newer

Your car your dream do what you want if you want to be happy

Hi

It looks like your car is Wattle yellow, it doesn't age the best. I'm not a fan of metallic paint, although a bug does look really great in metallic paint.

It amazes me how many cars you see driving past with metallic paint and you can tell that they have had some panel work when under certain light the colours on some panels don't match the rest of the car.

At the end of the day its your car so paint it any colour you decide, if you stay with Wattle make sure they get the colour mix correct, don't try to match of an existing bit of paintwork. I saw a wattle bug one day that had been repainted and it looked mayonnaise.

Steve

the beetle in the pic is that the to be stripped beast?
it looks good from the pic
leave it og
u can't go wrong

I have actually decided to paint my beetle a metallic medium blue, to match the color of my siamese cats eyez.
As I have been rubbing it back to bare metal. I had discovered that it was actually originally a blue, also thier had been a small fire under the back seat, and a whole heap of matches were dumped into the back vents when i pulled it apart thats when I discoverd it. Was ShoCkInG!!!

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Originally posted by Topaz I have actually decided to paint my beetle a metallic medium blue, to match the color of my siamese cats eyez.

The question is, why would you spend so much time doing up your car when you're already thinking of selling it? Resale factor shouldn't even come to your mind if you love your car.

To answer your question, yes pink would drop the resale value.

But my opinion is paint the car what YOU want it to be. Not what others think it should be, or what buyers may want in a few years' time.

You only live once and you only paint/restore very rarely. Make it what you want.

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Originally posted by 68AutoBug Quote: Originally posted by 1303Steve Hi It looks like your car is Wattle yellow, it doesn't age the best. I'm not a fan of metallic paint, although a bug does look really great in metallic paint. It amazes me how many cars you see driving past with metallic paint and you can tell that they have had some panel work when under certain light the colours on some panels don't match the rest of the car. At the end of the day its your car so paint it any colour you decide, if you stay with Wattle make sure they get the colour mix correct, don't try to match of an existing bit of paintwork. I saw a wattle bug one day that had been repainted and it looked mayonnaise. Steve Yes, Steve. I see cars like that frequently.. especially doors and guards... My Son painted My Beetle Mitsubishi silver grey metallic... which was odd as He always told Me never buy a metallic painted car.. [any car] [He is an auto spray painter by trade...] Maybe its just easier to paint the whole car if its a beetle.?? a local had some of His Beetle painted and He got the color from under the licence plate lamp.. lol where the sun had never been... Ive never seen a Beetle in metallic original paint in Australia but VW Germany did paint some beetles metallic in the 50s and 60s and 70s.. I wonder how much extra they charged..? in the 70's in the USA they had some special beetle models that came in One or more metallic colours.. LEE I have seen pink beetles... and I don't like them.. lol If Samantha is painting HER Beetle, why worry what colour its going to be? Sounds like She is going to sell it soon..??

Hi

Have a good think before you put one of those sun roofs in, they are flat and the Beetle roof is curved, so you have to flatten your roof to make it fit.


Steve

Pink and with a sunroof!

They aren't all completely flat, but there were some dodgy ones that were, which meant they never fit properly and the seals were crap and would leak.

Hi

Lees looks flat and the one in Roses red 1500 that she runs at the super sprint has a flat one that ruins a really nice car.

Does the pink bug above a have factory steel one or one these pop up ones, the Aeros look good on it.

Steve

It doesnt have a factory sunroof, but the sunroof for it has a slight curve. Aero guards are fantastic, especially as they accommodate the factory elephant foot tail lights for this L Bug so it was a good option.

The poor girl is sitting in Perth still at my parents place. Loved how the pink turned out, but unfortunately being a candy apple pink it fades super quick and certain parts have now turned to silver. Would love to get her over to Brisbane and finish her off, repaint her in either silver or gun metal grey and finish off the german look.