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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Squires (near Ava MO in the Mark Twain N'tl Forest) - Missouri
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Custom paint job $$$?
Yesterday, after a getting an insurance related fix on my truck, I asked them for a ballpark quote on Ami's 69 C3 convertible: $10,000.
I realized there was a lot of work in a show car job. But, was curious jut what all went into a custom (show car) paint job. But, until I saw this video, I couldn't appreciate the actual amount of work that goes into a show car custom job. Wow! Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow71HxdrZsc Last edited by Paul Workman; 09-25-2020 at 01:49 PM. |
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Join Date: Aug 2012
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Re: Custom paint job $$$?
Very cool Paul and thanks for sharing!
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Re: Custom paint job $$$?
Same for fiberglass?
Obviously you don't WELD to fill!
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Re: Custom paint job $$$?
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Perhaps that is where I went wrong.........................  Marty |
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Re: Custom paint job $$$?
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But I guess I can't complain, because the car was finished in 2014 and 5 years later still looked good enough to get first place at our employee car show last December... |
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Re: Custom paint job $$$?
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Very nice! |
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Re: Custom paint job $$$?
Very interesting to watch Paul. Thanks for posting. --Bob
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Re: Custom paint job $$$?
Do you want to barrow my leading paddles?
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10-02-2020
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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Re: Custom paint job $$$?
If anybody ever wonders why a nice paint job cost so much,try sanding on a car for a few hours and you will see why. I've got a friend that has a custom shop and some of the jobs coming out of his place cost $40,000.
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Re: Custom paint job $$$?
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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. Marty |
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