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Originally Posted by shawn908
Ok - my car is nearly done for updates, pending install of F/R Tarret sway bars... so now I’m thinking it looks like c__p (honestly I’ve known just focused on mechanical issues), relative to my perception of the fun I get from driving it. So my next goal is to paint the car - contract with a professional level painter (solo shop to large shop). Is it possible to get a glass out, doors/hood/deck lid off paint and not touch the wheel wells, interior anywhere including the engine bay and frunk? I mean I would like a QUALITY paint - down to metal level. Anyone know if this approach will be doable? Doable with a skilled painter (we know they exist from the beautiful work we see on Pelican).
If not, that’s ok (lottery win will fix it) I will just keep enjoying the car!
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is what your looking for doable? well of course it is and even then some.
the question is what's your budget to do the work your looking for?
1st off just bringing a cars finish down to bare metal doesn't always make for a better job. in fact it could mean for a worse job if your removing a finish with no real problems. there are times you would want to remove the finish but in no way is it always the best to do.
also things to think about are the fact that a shops estimate is only a guess of the cost of a repair never a set price. more often then not once you start working on a cars restoration you now have opened up a can or worms. estimates are based on what you can see with a car all together. you do things like start stripping the paint off and you very well could find lots of things you never knew were there.
you state you want a quality paint job.
to get a quality paint job it starts for the cars substrate and goes up to the top coats from there.
quality is not magic it's labor and lots of labor. labor means money and lots of money. but it goes much farther then just the labor. it's the materials also.
just for a low level job your materials would be about 8 to 10K easy this is for body fillers primers and paint. for top level your going to except to pay more then twice plus for quality materials. for instance low level body filler will cost 20$ a gal. top level body filler 70$ . a QT of low level paint 90$ top level per QT 250$ and this is just for the paint these kind of pricing doesn't include things like reducer clear hardener it's just the base coat color.
an average mid level restoration will run about 50K easy.
I have been restoring bugeye sprites one after another for the last few years now.
the last one I just did the customer gave me the car on a rolling dolly he took the car all apart to just a shell with no driveline no wiring no anything left on the car a total bare shell. we media blasted the shell to bare metal did the body and paint work and gave the car back to the customer ready for reassembly.
the cost of the job was just over 43K for a top level job.
so the 1st and most important thing to think about is your budget.
if your thinking your going to get a top level job for 10K your not.