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wcfvw69 
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| ^^^Thats very true! And Omni is damn near the cheapest paint you can get. You should see what happens to the bill when you step up to the good stuff! But its the amount of labor that is really shocking. Im impressed by anyone that is able to strip a car down and restore it properly in their garage in their off time. Its a wonder they are able to ever get it finsihed. |
I fixed my last post. It was PPG Concept and it WASN'T cheap! lol It was $500 a gallon with reducer and hardners.. |
Oh yeah. Thats way more. I recently bought a gallon of Black Cherry for a 442 I was doing. $700 for the gallon of color alone in Concept. Reducers and hardeners arent much cheaper. Clear is usually $400-$500 for a gallon kit too. Materials are killer these days. If you want to start getting real scared, price out the high end stuff. I cant believe they can even tell you the price with a straight face. |
My last boss was worth hundreds of millions of dollars. In his enormous airplane hanger, he had a few muscle cars that were restored by high end shops. One was a 57 Chevy, painted black. That paint job was FLAWLESS. Not one flaw or imperfection that I could see, and I looked hard. As you looked down the side of those long panels, you couldn't see ANY waves, ripples or anything. It was perfectly flat, like a mirror. He shared the cost of just the paint job portion of the restoration. Over $35k to just paint the car.. The shop used the best of the best in painting supplies. Hundreds of hours blocking it out before spraying it. Hundreds of hours color sanding and buffing.
Those high end paint jobs put in perspective our complaints about paying for paint supplies for our cars.
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buguy
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| So true. On the flip side, in our shop we see people spend 2 years and 100k+ restoring their cars, then when it comes time for paint they cheap out and get in a big rush. |
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Cliff@BrownBags
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 9:21 pm Post subject: Re: Bodywork Budgeting in Maryland |
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5k is just the paint job. You are looking at over a grand just in GOOD materials.
Minimal body work and paint is easily 5-10k. I think you underestimate 2 things.
1. the cost of GOOD materials
2. the time it takes to do it.
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Schwing
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| Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 6:05 pm Post subject: Re: Bodywork Budgeting in Maryland |
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I paid $900k for PPG Concept, reducer, and hardener and Epoxy primer shipped to my house. Who knows what I paid in sandpaper, acetone, gloves, water separaters, tack cloth, and time!
Then who knows what I paid after I was done painting and it was time for me to color sand which took 6 weeks since I am a father and have a full time job.
Its just one of those things, they charge a lot because most people really can't be bothered and they know that. And that's ok. |
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vwinnovator
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 7:17 pm Post subject: Re: Bodywork Budgeting in Maryland |
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I paid $900k for PPG Concept, reducer, and hardener and Epoxy primer shipped to my house. Who knows what I paid in sandpaper, acetone, gloves, water separaters, tack cloth, and time!
Then who knows what I paid after I was done painting and it was time for me to color sand which took 6 weeks since I am a father and have a full time job.
Its just one of those things, they charge a lot because most people really can't be bothered and they know that. And that's ok. |
That's quite an expensive paint job  |
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Schwing
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| Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 7:56 am Post subject: Re: Bodywork Budgeting in Maryland |
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I paid $900k for PPG Concept, reducer, and hardener and Epoxy primer shipped to my house. Who knows what I paid in sandpaper, acetone, gloves, water separaters, tack cloth, and time!
Then who knows what I paid after I was done painting and it was time for me to color sand which took 6 weeks since I am a father and have a full time job.
Its just one of those things, they charge a lot because most people really can't be bothered and they know that. And that's ok. |
That's quite an expensive paint job |
Oops. Yeah I think I'd rather have a waterfront house with a nice big garage than a $900,000 paintjob. $900 is what I paid. Its a backyard paintjob and it shows but I don't care cause its my first paint job. |
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