dave from texas

What costs of paint jobs have you encountered?
Dave

2000BSME

Vetteman Jack

Low end: $3-4K, mid-range: $4-7K, top job: $7K on up.

lil vette

Any Car......$299.95
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Evil-Twin

If your repainting the same color its much cheaper not having to take the car apart and put it back together... but if your painting a completely different color. That will bring the cost up 2 to three grand... then their is the paint cost.. paint is anywhere from 50 dollars a quart, to 6,000 a quart.. there are places around here that will paint a car for 299.00.. but a guaranteed for life Paint job is anywhere from 10K to 20 K using any factory color from any manufacturer.. an average good paint job around here is 4 to 5 grand... anything less than that would not be something to put on a corvette... you dont want your car used as a teaching school at Vo-tec or a paint shop that uses Vo-tec students. I'm not putting down kids with ambition or even gifted kids, but I would want them working on My car,..Kids just dont have the focus that a professional would have, kids have too much testosterone to burn off.
Bill aka ET

Sorry I Bought An A4

i have erased all memory of what i paid for mine but i do remember that i told my wife it was about 3,000. that seemed like an easier number for her to digest.

AC54ME

ET is on target, as usual.

dave from Texas - where are you located? If in the DFW area, try Stewarts (Dallas off I 635)

timemender

I wish I had erasable memory like you.

$3,000.00 What other lies (er…….. I mean untruths) have you told your wife.

P.S. I like your $300.00 (per set) wheels

vette dan

$3-$4k

Z06ster

Indeed, Earl Schieb is way low end, they cut many corners in their process and you get some "orange peel" when looking up close, but for the small money spent, I was actually surprised how my old '85 300ZX turned out... Oh, I should note before I gave them the car, I did a little bit of prep work (e.g. sanding) that I knew they would not do...

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After,

lil vette

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I was always joking around about Earl, but for $299.00
that looks to be a pretty good job.
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peter pan

[QUOTE=Z06ster;1563730018]Indeed, Earl Schieb is way low end, they cut many corners in their process and you get some "orange peel" when looking up close, but for the small money spent, I was actually surprised how my old '85 300ZX turned out... Oh, I should note before I gave them the car, I did a little bit of prep work (e.g. sanding) that I knew they would not do...

You did sell it right after that

Old Man in a C

Back in the mid 60s, Earl was painting complete cars for $29.00. Infact, it may have been $19.99. I did the prep work myself (Bondo) on my old Triumph TR3. Earl painted both fenders and the door on the passenger side for $7.00.

Corvette-Chris

stormrider

If you do a majority of the prep work (AKA wet sanding and pulling the panels off) you will save a lot of $$ but it will cost you a lot of time in return.

Z06ster

Holy Cow peter pan, is that a lucky guess or you recalled my post a while ago on the thread "What was your car before your vette?". I think its the latter.

vertstr

Sorrt I bought a A4 - you just made me laugh so hard my wife asked what was going on, I thought that I was the only one who had too cover up $

craig04c5

Yep, in the mid 60's my dad and I prepped my 59 Chevy 2 door and took it to Earl Schieb's for $19.95 and an extra $5 to paint inside of the chrome piece on the sides white. It turned out really nice.

SUNNYD 95

For a decent paint job your looking at a min. of 5k

MR.WaynesWorld

We have a friend of the family in the business and he does great work.

Here's my C4 before:



And After I had him do the work on it: