Its been almost 18 years.....

vulcan1208

Member
Messages
168
.......and having spent almost £50,000 keeping it running I finally took the plunge and had my 3200 repainted and I am very pleased with the results. I just have a dash to re trim to be done in January, a new pedal pot fitted ( currently using the bridging fix ) and a wheel refurbishment to be done to get the wheels back to standard color and that's it. For a car that's done over 100,000 miles it looks pretty good and with the engine having done under 50k and having a contactless TB it runs very very well indeed. I almost sold it a couple of years back for under £10k but I'm now glad I didn't, in fact I would like to get to 25 years of ownership all being well.79419794207942179422
 

Andyk

Member
Messages
61,040
Just a stunning colour and she is certainly looking in brilliant condition with her new paint.
 

davy83

Member
Messages
2,809
excellent! and paint looks good. I am planning a visit to the body shop with my car next year, if the lock down ever lifts to tidy it up a bit. its makes all the difference. and once its running well its a hard car to beat really.
 

vulcan1208

Member
Messages
168
Wow, that looks amazing, and well done for sticking with it for so long.

Yes its been a long time, a huge outlay and never ending frustration ( in terms of reliability ) but with the mechanical issues seemingly sorted and a local engine shop that work on it without batting a eyelid at the same price as they fix my 10 year old Volvo the future is looking better.
 

vulcan1208

Member
Messages
168
I think it is (09-75?)

PH
It is indeed, I know it's sacrilidge but I almost broke it for spares last year as it was worth more as parts but a full service, a clean MOT pass and a fix of the latest CEL issue (albeit temporary) changed my mind, now it looks as good as it did all those years ago when I collected it from Meridien Modena.
 

CT3200GT

Junior Member
Messages
94
Your car looks stunning! Well done for maintaining and keeping her, they are great cars if sorted properly..
 

Marco07

Member
Messages
373
Looks stunning - well done.

I’ve had my QP since new in 2007, done 85,000 wonderful miles and pampered the car like a child. Can I ask why you repainted? Stone chips? Not possible to have paint correction?

Have been thinking of putting my car through a trusted paint shop to correct where possible and repaint in other areas. My car is a keeper so am tempted.
 

Gp79

Member
Messages
1,393
Welldone for keeping going, does look great in red. 50k sounds bad but over 18yrs including engine rebuild isn’t that bad
 

vulcan1208

Member
Messages
168
Looks stunning - well done.

I’ve had my QP since new in 2007, done 85,000 wonderful miles and pampered the car like a child. Can I ask why you repainted? Stone chips? Not possible to have paint correction?

Have been thinking of putting my car through a trusted paint shop to correct where possible and repaint in other areas. My car is a keeper so am tempted.

It has been well used both as a daily driver until just a few years ago and for a number of long distance and some times high speed trips across Europe and the 100,000 miles it has done were beginning to show; the wheel arches were starting to rust and although I had some very expensive body repairs (including paint) at a high quality specialists some years back the blending in of the paint was staring to show and no matter how much I polish I used it just never looked as good as it should or could. The coachworks owner said he could make it look pretty special given a bit of time and what with the current situation and it being the quiet Christmas period he could, if I was prepared to leave it with him for as long as it took, give me a good price as a "Filler" job. I am extremely happy with the results even down to the fact that when he had the door cards out he removed the handle recesses and cleaned off all of the sticky tar like coating that seems to affect a lot of the 3200 plastics. All in all I am very pleased to have it back and he is relieved to have it gone as he said it was a very difficult car to strip down and re assemble. I now have the dash top booked in for a re trim, two new side indicators on order from Eurospares and will be removing the air con condenser for a rebulild the week after next then apart from getting the wheels back to their original colour that's about it.
Welldone for keeping going, does look great in red. 50k sounds bad but over 18yrs including engine rebuild isn’t that bad

It was a brand new "on the crate" full engine from Eurospares at £11,000, which may not seem so much nowadays but back when the engine failed it was a huge amount of money so much so that Lancaster Maserati who fitted the new engine even advised at the time it was probably better to scrap the car but I persevered and here I am, things have come full circle as it is very much back to how I bought it.
 

bigbob

Member
Messages
8,952
Beautiful and deeply impressive usage & mileage too! Makes my ten years in my GranTurismo look a bit lame. Mind I had a 3200 then 4200 before that.