Cost of painting??

[chuckd71]

You can do wrap yourself, at least most of it, and it looks good when on. I did my hood, trunk and door so far and (for a first attempt) it's pretty solid. Looks good when clean, most people are surprised to learn it's not paint. Going to finish the rest sometime this summer then go with blue or silver in 3-4 years. Not really sure I trust Joe Rando painter with the carbon hood and trunk anyway. $20k paint vs $500 in wrap will not affect how much fun I have with my car. The difference will pay for several vacations overseas and/ or an LT1/ 8 speed setup with plenty left to spare.

[79 Camaro]

So more progress. Cab, doors and hood are painted. Cab back on the frame. One door is color sanded and buffed. I have to say that door looks great. Very sharp reflection from the shop lights.

Two coats of red on the inside of the cab. Two coats of clear.

On the outside three coats of color and four coats of clear. No color sanding and buffing for me. Per the body shop owner it's no time for me to practice.


It's been very cool so far. I've got about 100-120 hours in on the project body work so far. Doesn't include any of the work prior stripping and sanding blasting edges.

It was funny because when I bought the truck it had the "prefect" CA desert patina but needed all the sealer replaced and small dents pulled. I asked my wife if she wanted patina or shiny and she said shiny. No problem with patina projects but if I was spending time doing all the body work I wouldn't do fake patina. Again only my opinion but I think patina look is going to be like the mid 80's all one color street rods and cars. Going to date them quite badly in the next few years.

The color is 2017 Ford Vermillion red. A bit darker red than the Chevy Victory red. Hope that Ford color doesn't slow down the truck too much! I will get some pics posted.

[Jetfixr320]

Color sanding and buffing didn't seem any harder then learning body work and paint.

Let's see some pics!

[Mr Nick]

And the life expectancy of wrap is? Just curious as I had read somewhere that it won't last as long as paint. But, I don't know where I read it.

I'm thinking a garage kept car, wrap will last well over 5 years. Our fleet at work is wrapped, going on 2 years now. They spend their life outside, and are pressure washed by an industrial fleet wash company every other week. No bubbles, peeling, cracks etc.

[Jetfixr320]

I called 3 local company's about doing a partial wrap on the front half of my 16' enclosed trailer. Solid color, no graphics. They all quoted around $1500. I thought that was pretty high.

[gearheads78]

Mine was $6k out the door and I am very pleased with the results. Some metal work involved, Prime > Block > Prime > Block > Color > Clear

ShopLine materials, for me, it will do just fine. It's hard to get a paint today that doesn't last pretty darn well. The car sees quite a bit of drive time and is not a SEMA/trailer queen.

The car was picked up as show and dropped off as shown within 3-4months. I will use them again when it's time to paint my Warlock.

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Who did the work?

[79 Camaro]

So costs are all in.

My doing 99% of all the basic sanding.

Body shop did all the color sanding and cut and buff.

I had about 300 hours from start to finish. Dent repair first. Skim coat sanding. One layer of "poly" primer sanding. Two sanding sessions of regular primer. First with 180 and then the next with 320.

With the body shop prep for spraying the primer and doing all the prep for final paint the cost for paint materials and prep was very even.



Material costs $2600. 6 quarts of paint and the stuff needed to support the paint. $2900 for their labor costs. When I complete assembly I will get some pics.

[Hemi8]

For 15k it would be worth finding a roller and transferring your drive train, 7500 is realistic, 28k is just stupid. Driven cars get dinged and scratched, so why worry about it.

Mike

[cpd004]

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I painted this car for Kevin (qnitro on here) for less than $10k and he loves it. Bare metal frame off with epoxy and bedliner on the underside, quality SPI paint. Is it perfect? No, but that was not the goal. Nice clean driver was the goal and he won’t be crying every time he gets a stone chip.

Don

Looks great Don! Do you have a before pic and rough idea of how many man hours you have into it?

[dhutton]

Looks great Don! Do you have a before pic and rough idea of how many man hours you have into it?

No before pics but it got lower rear quarter patches, trunk drop offs, lower fender patches and a small door corner patch if I remember right. Mini tubs and DSE subframe connectors. Bare metal paint. Roughly 300 hours. Kevin won best Camaro at Goodguys a couple of weeks ago. He did a great job finishing the car.

Don

[shelteredchevelle]

I'm going a bit different route. My buddy that owns a body shop is taking the car, installing the mini tubs and doing the trans tunnel to fit the TKO, and then helping me marry the body to the new Schwartz chassis. I'm going to finish it mechanically and drive it as is for a while and then at some point I'm going to take it back apart and do a rotisserie job. The body has 36,000 garaged miles on it so it's presentable for now. Body shops out here are stupid expensive, so the car is going to Pa. to a guy that's really good, reasonable, and knows how to keep a schedule.

[XLexusTech]

And you went black ! Bravo well done