Budget Paint for Jenny's '70 Sedan

[madworks]

[Cusser]

Any photos of Jenny showing her appreciation ???
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[New2me69]

pfffff..............not too damn shabby for the money!! Nice!

Looks great, man!

[Zundfolge1432]

[joey1320]

[madworks]

[joey1320]

[Cusser]

Scheib painted the hood on my truck a few years ago, satisfied with that too (I bolted it on).
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[Zundfolge1432]

[67rustavenger]

For what it cost to have Jenny's car painted. I think it looks pretty good.
Yea your not gonna get a perfect paint job for that price. I'd be very happy with a 20 footer. I might do this next winter.

Regarding custom mixed rattle cans. I have had mine mixed at my local Napa. There was (in my case) no minimum purchase. The paint matched pretty well. So I was happy with the results.

Happy wife, happy life!
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[andk5591]

Yeah - I had done that years ago with the custom mixed rattle can for a project so I could shoot the wheels body color. Research it first though, I think I had to "buy a quart" so, I had several cans made up. Wasnt cheap, but came in real handy. Car looks good - glad it came out as nice as it did.
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[Cusser]

[madworks]

[Baelfire]

Looks good from where I'm sitting! Glad your wife is happy!

[Buenos Diaz]

Looks great!
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[joey1320]

Do you remember the name of the color?
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[madworks]

[irun5k]

Hey, FWIW I think you did the right thing here. That looks fine and honestly as others have said the "perfect" paint job on a beetle is going to be several grand, ~5K. So much of the car is painted metal and the whole car needs to be disassembled.

So if you're not looking to spend 5K on a job that might be many times over what some cars are bought for, my take is to do as much prep work as you can on your own and go bargain. Why spend, as an example, 2K, since a job at that price point won't be perfect either.

I don't see how Maaco can make any money at all on a job like that. The materials (I'm guessing even for a body shop) are expensive and you can only take so many shortcuts on labor, the thing still has to be masked and sprayed, prep and cleanup, etc. They could have done better on the deck lid, but otherwise it looks like "mission accomplished."

One tip, you can get that paint color mixed up in a special 2K rattle can at your local paint store, or just get a quart and a cheap HVLP gun at Harbor Freight or even one of their airbrush kits with small compressor if you don't have a compressor in your shop. Over time as you work on the car you can start painting some of the other areas. With a little practice you can really fix quite a bit a weekend at a time. If you've got a good paint match, you would be surprised what can be done, I've fixed some small areas in plain view that body shops refused to touch, and you can barely tell. Wet sanding and polishing can work miracles.

[Mos6502]

For the price, I think it turned out great. As long as it lasts a few years anyway.

[madworks]