[Duc Hunter]

My Rat Rod is being cut apart to do rust repair, whole floor is out, etc. I asked about paint cost. I’m getting a great price with a great guys doing the work. Given that you dont know what you will find when the windows come out and it gets sanded down (rust, bad body repairs prior to your ownership, etc), you need a bit of a war chest to do it “just in case.” He said if there was no body work to be fixed, just sand down and repaint properly plan on 150-200 hours plus paint costs.

Remember it needs to be sanded back to at least a quality substrate, which can mean back to primer. Some people want to go back to almost bare metal to make sure the body work underneith is solid. If its not, the paint guy could do a great job, and then a pin hole of rust could start from a bad repair under the primer, and you get a little bubble, and then you and they are both mad.