70 Coupe Deville Fender Skirts Resale Value

[Jhornback]

Hi, I recently bought a 1970 Coupe Deville to fix up and sell. I'm trying to restore it to Hagerty's "fair" condition. I currently have the original fender skirts, but they're too twisted to attach. I've priced a pair of used fender skirts plus matching paint at around $500. Would spending the $500 for new skirts be a good investment for selling the car, or should I save the money and leave them off? I have attached a current picture of the car below.

[chrisntam]

Iffin' it were me, I wouldn't do the skirts.  Paint (likely) won't be a perfect match and there is add'l work needed - per the picture provided.  Do all the body work / paint work at one time. Tell the new owner you'll take $500 off the price, let him deal with headaches that invariably come with paint matching.

If I were looking to buy the car, I'd want to know what caused the skirt damage and is there more (related and unknown) damage.

I guess you know the wheel covers aren't the ones that came with the car in 1970.  Not sure what year they're from.

Best of luck to you on the sale.

chris.

[Jhornback]

Iffin' it were me, I wouldn't do the skirts.  Paint (likely) won't be a perfect match and there is add'l work needed - per the picture provided.  Do all the body work / paint work at one time. Tell the new owner you'll take $500 off the price, let him deal with headaches that invariably come with paint matching.

If I were looking to buy the car, I'd want to know what caused the skirt damage and is there more (related and unknown) damage.

I guess you know the wheel covers aren't the ones that came with the car in 1970.  Not sure what year they're from.

Best of luck to you on the sale.

chris.

Thanks for the advice. The skirts I have now are not reparable. I found a pair of used replacement skirts for $175. Would it help with the sale if I bought the unpainted skirts, or should I just not bother and have the buyer track down the replacement skirts themselves?

[35-709]

My opinion, buy the skirts to include with the sale.  Most would rather have a complete car and you would be saving your buyer the task of finding the skirts.  I would certainly want them even if they had to be painted.

[The Tassie Devil(le)]

A car that was built for Skirts really needs Skirts to fill the odd fender pressings at front and rear.

Bruce.

[Cape Cod Fleetwood]

Eh, get the skirts while you can.
Also check Jeff Burland and John Abend to see what they have in stock.

[Barry M Wheeler #2189]

Since the car has obviously been repainted recently, (primer under skirt area when it should be body color) I would take the skirts to Maaco and see how close a match they can make. It will make the car look "complete" and I really wouldn't worry too much about a "match" as it's been painted recently anyway. I'd also check with a paintless dent repair guy and see how much he thinks he can do for the big dent. Good luck.

[76eldo]

Any good body shop can scan your paint and match the color.
Not sure if that’s a Maaco type thing.

[Barry M Wheeler #2189]

Brian, I had Maaco match (pretty well) my bumper fillers on my 1979 Fleetwood. As this gentleman was wanting to do things inexpensively, I thought about them probably being the 21st Century Earl Schibe.

[cadillacmike68]

The wheel covers look like they are from a 1966-67 model.

[V63]

I would do the skirts...one less apology.