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PROJECT GT OF MANY COLOURS

“You don’t want to risk damaging them while painting the engine bay or floors”

Once you start a full respray on a bodyshell, you realise how time consuming it is. The actual painting, when undertaken by someone who knows what they’re doing, takes very little time. The rest of the process – the prep, rubbing down, filling and masking takes huge amounts of time. Especially when you consider that each of these processes will be repeated for each

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