Sold my last (4th) miata just before I left the states to come to Germany. Been driving a '90 525I ever since, well I went to the base junkyard today to grab a taillight for said BMW, and as soon as I walked in the gates I saw a miata. Driver's door took a decent blow from something but everything seems to be straight, door still works fine, has a hardtop, all primer-black. It's a US spec '91, ran good, although I didn't get a chance to drive it, but they only want $300 for it and yes that's with the hardtop, so I think I'm gonna go back tuesday (when they're open again) and grab her (only reason I didn't yet is because I can only pull $300 a day out of the ATM and obviously my bank doesn't have an office in Germany.)

Anyone in Germany or Netherlands(Oscar, Spookyfish, looking at you!) with a source for a driver's door and a decent painter let me know, I may be looking to get rid of the HT so if you're close by an interested let me know.

 

Shouldn't be too problematic to find a decent door for you - I could do a WTB on th German board.

We have quite some MX-5 drivers in and around Aachen (Sandro with his 99 turbo is even here at the board...) so they should be able to give some advice about decent painters...

greets

 

Awesome, I'm a little ways south of Aachen, but I've been there a time or two.

What's an average so-so paint job cost in Germany?

 

Hi,
can you post some pictures from the parts, which must be painted?

Then i ask my favorite painter for a price.

There is no real average price, i think there is a price area from 100-400€, from painter to painter.
Some painter make good prices if the parts are removed, some others can do great smart-repairs without removing, normaly it depends on the parts condition.

Greets
Sandro

 

That's a good deal man....good find.

 

The whole car (+ hardtop) needs to be painted, it's all primer gray/black right now but it's going to need a good little bit of prep-work. I'll snap some pictures when I go pick it up on Tuesday.

Thanks a lot, what part of Germany are you in BTW? EDIT: NVM, just put 2 and 2 together, you're in Aachen.

 

paint is not important. boost is.

 

It's primer black....and you can tell where it used to be red...and pink....and possibly purple, I'm at least going to rattle can it again. I may just sell off the HT clean her up a bit and sell it for roughly what I put into it plus a bit. Then look for a better platform. Will have pictures ~Tuesday.

 

A buddy of mine may want that hardtop if you want to let it go for cheap

 

What's your idea of cheap?

 

$400 or less preferably

 

Try using marine paint and a roller, I'm pretty sure someone on here painted there car white that way and it came out really nice...

 

Search = brightside:

Boat paint follow up

$40 Paint Job

Hustler's Giant Tampon

(etc)

This is what's being discussed: http://www.jamestowndistributors.com...duct.do?pid=64


However I kind of agree; a $300 car that's been pink and red and purple in the past is best dignified by a rattle-can job... Maybe chrome metallic bright pink? Or one of these.

 

Left the gawd damn junkyard an hour and a half before they closed saturday, they've been closed ever since until I got there at 0945 (they open at ten) this mornign and the ******* **** sucking ******* had sold it, what a dick move. I tried to give him $300 to hold it saturday and he said "no no, that's OK just be here tuesday morning and I'll sell it to you then, I won't sell it for the rest of today" ******* did. I wanted to ******* hit him with something.

 

Come on - even if we Germans are ******* unreliable...

We got hot chicks and beer...

 

American's...on-post....no German's involved. Hot Chicks and beer make up for it though, is 1330 to early to go to the bar? I didn't think so, I'll be back later.

 

Come on - it's after 1200 go get yourself a beer...