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I had my -72 wrapped in 2012, friend who is a pro did it. It's still looking good, only slight problem is that the white in the tail panel has yellowed a bit from the exhaust fumes.
I had my -72 wrapped in 2012, friend who is a pro did it. It's still looking good, only slight problem is that the white in the tail panel has yellowed a bit from the exhaust fumes.
Beautiful car and it really looks like it was worth driving from Finland to Michigan to have it done. I wish I had a friend who could do that. The more I think about it, the more confused I get. I'm on the fence choosing paint vs vinyl wrap vs leaving it as is. It's a 3-sided fence.
If you plan on going to a lot of shows and having the car judged and want everyone to go WOW that's an awesome paint job then have it repainted. If you are going to drive the heck out of it and not many shows then the paint that is on it is not to terrible or have it wrapped.
Honestly sometimes I wish I did not have a show quality paint job. I worry to much about it getting dinged or rocks throwing at it.
If you plan on going to a lot of shows and having the car judged and want everyone to go WOW that's an awesome paint job then have it repainted. If you are going to drive the heck out of it and not many shows then the paint that is on it is not to terrible or have it wrapped.
Honestly sometimes I wish I did not have a show quality paint job. I worry to much about it getting dinged or rocks throwing at it.
The paint on your car is incredible, no reason to regret that. You're right, the paint on mine is not terrible, but it could be better. Maybe vinyl is the way to go. I'm not thinking about shows right now. No time to even get to one. Not a daily driver either but there are too many chips, from rocks kicking up, for my taste. Maybe I can just cover them with all of the stickers that came with the parts you installed for me. There are enough to paper the entire car.
Not a Corvette, but I can speak from experience with a shop truck, and lots of boats.
I work in the boat biz, and it has become very popular to wrap hull sides with graphics. It allows people to do wild graphics (or sponsor graphics for the tournament guys), then peel the boat to sell with the original and un-faded gelcoat. Properly prepped, the lifespan is about three years. But these are boats on trailers when not in use. On boats they start to look ratty from abrasions before they lift or fade.
We did one of the shop vans (a Sprinter) in a full wrap, and when I left the company it was three years old. It had lived out in the Florida sun the entire time, been beat on like most shop trucks, and occasionally washed with a boat brush. It still looked good, with just a little lifting along some seams, but this was more an issue with some odd surface transitions on the Sprinter, as with the install. It was peeled and re-wrapped at year four - not because it looked bad, but to change the marketing message.
With good materials, and a top talent installer, I would think you could get many years from the wrap on a Corvette. Considering most of our cars are not the daily driver, and live inside the rest of the time.
