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Originally Posted by ramblux
I'd rather buy a car with mismatched body panels (bodywise) or damage that I can see (so I can assess for myself what needs to be done). Ideally, I buy cars that still wear the original paint.
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Looks can be decieving. I bought a 240 that had body damage, the quarter panel had some damage but it could be fixed with metal work and filler. Turns out that underneath the paint was all kinds of nastiness. The quarter had been sectioned wrong and it was almost an inch think in filler in places. You don't always know what your getting into, even though the body "looks" straight. A good rule of thumb, if you knock on the panel and it doesn't sound like metal, it's probably not.