Anything and everything Spitfire.

Chassis, bodywork, interior, instrumentation.

Some wretched toe rag has keyed/scratched my car from the rear wing, across the door and down the bonnet. The respray was only completed in June of last year.

In places it&8217;s so deep I can see the metal!

I feel like rounding the neighbours up and going on a hunter for the culprit, flaming torches and the works. It&8217;s been a busy week for crime I got broken into on Monday as well!

Anyway, what to do. My thinking is that the insurance will go up if I make a claim.

So if I clean up the deepest of the scar and refill it just below the surface with filler, then hand paint over the top with 8-10 layers of paint (I have some left over from the respray.) followed by a sand down with 1500 wet and dry. Then a buff up with polishing compound and a wheel, then Tcut in a week or so.

Would that work? Or will it look a beggar.

I&8217;ve quite a lot of experience preprepping before a spray job and final polishing but the dark art of scratch removal is not one I&8217;ve ever done before.

Jon