Custom paint job $$$?

[Paul Workman]

Yesterday, after a getting an insurance related fix on my truck, I asked them for a ballpark quote on Ami's 69 C3 convertible: $10,000.

I realized there was a lot of work in a show car job. But, was curious jut what all went into a custom (show car) paint job. But, until I saw this video, I couldn't appreciate the actual amount of work that goes into a show car custom job. Wow!

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow71HxdrZsc

[dredgeguy]

Very cool Paul and thanks for sharing!

[tf95ZR1]

Same for fiberglass?
Obviously you don't WELD
to fill!

[WARP TEN]

Very interesting to watch Paul. Thanks for posting. --Bob

[DRM500RUBYZR-1]

Same for fiberglass?
Obviously you don't WELD
to fill!

Hmmmm.
Perhaps that is where I went wrong.........................
:cheers:
Marty

[BigJohn]

Do you want to barrow my leading paddles?

[Z51JEFF]

If anybody ever wonders why a nice paint job cost so much,try sanding on a car for a few hours and you will see why. I've got a friend that has a custom shop and some of the jobs coming out of his place cost $40,000.

[DRM500RUBYZR-1]

If anybody ever wonders why a nice paint job cost so much,try sanding on a car for a few hours and you will see why. I've got a friend that has a custom shop and some of the jobs coming out of his place cost $40,000.

So true!

One of my customers had a well known shop give him an estimate to repaint an NCRS Top Flight car.
Now mind you, its current paint and bodywork was good enough to secure a Top Flight.

He essentially was told that the shop would fib and say about $40,000.00 for the estimate, but it would be over $50,000.00 by the time it was all finished.

So the next time you see one of those mid years with a Top Flight just know they may have spent that to get it looking that good!

Now that certainly does not mean EVERY Corvette Re-Paint costs $50,000.00.

We had a 78 Silver Anniversary car here that everyone raved about.
The paint had been done for less than $4,000.00 at a local Paintarama!!!
It indeed looked really good.

What hurts is when you see a car that you know at one point was a Top Flight car, and then someone "painted" it.
And now, it is essentially ruined.
It is bright and shiny, but it will never make it through judging as is.

Make sure if you ever need paintwork that you are VERY careful to make sure that you are very specific about the desired finished product so that there is no misunderstanding or confusion between you and the shop.

You don't get a 50k paint job for 5k.

:cheers:
Marty

[ram_g]

Same for fiberglass?
Obviously you don't WELD
to fill!

One of my other toys is a Factory Five Cobra roadster that I built myself. Fiberglass body over a steel and aluminum chassis, not unlike a Corvette. Did everything myself except the paint job, which was in fact $10K. And that was without the painted stripes that are de rigueur for Cobra replicas and after I had trimmed and fitted the doors, hood, and trunklid, which are significant portions of the body prep.

But I guess I can't complain, because the car was finished in 2014 and 5 years later still looked good enough to get first place at our employee car show last December...:cheers:

https://www.zr1.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=477&pictureid=4523

[BigJohn]

One of my other toys is a Factory Five Cobra roadster that I built myself. Fiberglass body over a steel and aluminum chassis, not unlike a Corvette. Did everything myself except the paint job, which was in fact $10K. And that was without the painted stripes that are de rigueur for Cobra replicas and after I had trimmed and fitted the doors, hood, and trunklid, which are significant portions of the body prep.

But I guess I can't complain, because the car was finished in 2014 and 5 years later still looked good enough to get first place at our employee car show last December...:cheers:

https://www.zr1.net/forum/picture.php?albumid=477&pictureid=4523



Very nice!

[Corvette95]

I will soon post the AFTER pictures of the low mileage 90 I am restoring... I am well over the 10k in the paint process and I did a lot of the prep myself. It looks great, but man, what a process!

[Z51JEFF]

One thing I find odd is why wasn't the car blown completely apart,that's what a quality job entails.

[Paul Workman]

One thing I find odd is why wasn't the car blown completely apart,that's what a quality job entails.

Some truth in that....

Brett (Henderson) took this neophyte in hand and we spent a day finishing up what little I had accomplished up to then in preparation for painting. Lots of pieces were painted individually, now that you mention it, but not completely "exploded"...not entirely...