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WOW! That looks impressive. I looked into a paint job on my 86 the other year and decided not to do it. Not to take away from your job as it is impressive, but I find it hard to justify that kind of money for a paint job that's costing a lot more than the cars value. If this is your last Vette then maybe it's justified but darn, that's so expensive to get a proper paint job done IMO.
I'm way past the point of ever recouping the investment in this car, even before the paint job, haha. It was quite a chunck of money to pay for sure.
Its been due for paint for a few years as I was starting to get little cracks and bubbles in the old paint in several spots, so if I wanted the car to look nice there wasn't much choice. And if I was going to do the whole car might as well do it a color I really liked/wanted and have it done right, so that's how my thinking went. Not sure if it'll be the last vette I ever own (i'm only 34) but i've had it for 18 years and don't plan to sell for the foreseeable future.
I repainted mine a similar color, but it was a metal flake red from the new Camaro.
I replaced the hood and bumpers, but the material cost alone was over $5000.
Never thought I would put "Mud Flaps" on a Corvette, but when you hear those rocks bagging on your $13,000 paint job ... you might look into them.
Found some black ones that are barely noticeable and they help a lot, keeping rocks and road grease, etc. off your rockers.
Last edited by SuperL98; Jun 13, 2021 at 09:00 PM.
if you sold it just cause of cost of a new paint job you may have regretted it if you like the car enough.
I sunk a ton into a 20 yr old truck despite lots of cricitism....it hurt spending/charging for sure but it is SO worth it every time I look at it.
Do it right with good materials it will hold up for many yrs...its those cheapy jobs that start fading in 3 yrs.
Beats a new car payment and you can still work on a c4. The whole car market is kind there..lease/return, have deep pockets to pay someone as they are so complex or sink $ into something old and keep long term.
I repainted mine a similar color, but it was a metal flake red from the new Camaro.
I replaced the hood and bumpers, but the material cost alone was over $5000.
Never thought I would put "Mud Flaps" on a Corvette, but when you hear those rocks bagging on your $13,000 paint job ... you might look into them.
Found some black ones that are barely noticeable and they help a lot, keeping rocks and road grease, etc. off your rockers.
Your car looks great!, I had never thought about mud flaps but ya that is a good point. The body of these C4's does wrap way underneath so it is vulnerable to chips on the rocker panels.
if you sold it just cause of cost of a new paint job you may have regretted it if you like the car enough.
I sunk a ton into a 20 yr old truck despite lots of cricitism....it hurt spending/charging for sure but it is SO worth it every time I look at it.
Do it right with good materials it will hold up for many yrs...its those cheapy jobs that start fading in 3 yrs.
Beats a new car payment and you can still work on a c4. The whole car market is kind there..lease/return, have deep pockets to pay someone as they are so complex or sink $ into something old and keep long term.
Ya no car payments here, always buy my cars and other stuff cash. I can for sure work on my C4, and actually we did the LS swap in such a way that its for the most part more easy to work on now than it was with the SBC.
