paying for paint
 

Whats a reasonable price that you should/would pay for a top notch paint job?
Say something like "Sick Fish" ?

depends on the work the car needs I have a Z/28 were going to be redoing and its going to be between 30- 50k

WOW!!! :eek:

Damn you can build a whole car for that... :willy:

paint
 

I believe what he is getting at is doing the metal work and paint. Just paint and materials will probably be 3 to $4,000. Body prep, panel replacement, cool custom mods...the list goes on and on, and so does the money spent.

So with all of that said, when you ask how much for a paint job you need to qualify that with what level of quality and what needs to be done. I am sure that you can find someone to scuff and shoot the outside of the car for $500 at one of those Earl Shives kind of places.

We'll from my stand point of owning a shop and being a painter! Here is a budget figure to go by!

Show/Driver paint
$1500 in material
$1500 to spray
$1500- $4000 labor (cut/buffing, prep work, etc)

The paint I did on my car I would not do for less than $7500, yeah that would include the minor body work, blocking the car, priming, blocking again, base, clear, cutting the clear and buffing it.

Were a bit more pricey, you'll spend at least $10,000 for basic, strip, ding repair, and paint. The normal Camaro needing quarters, door and fender patching, original or repo panel massaging, some floor work, rotisserie, under, over, inside and out, rolling, will go right at $20K.

i would say you are right on . :P
rick k

wowza...........i don't even make that in a year............

i think franks pricing is about on the money.... i bid a certain 71 chevelle that needed 1 qtr and 2 tone black and orange.... as a rush job with the "good guy" discount....just a hair under 10k.

the car ended up goin someplace else..... the deadline wasnt met, the qtr wasnt replaced...... and well.....lets just say the customer isnt at all happy with the way the car looks 6 months later.

On a rust free mid size (f body, a body) you'll spend $10,000 -12,000 for strip, bodywork, BLOCK SANDING, line up all panels and paint. Basecoat clearcoat and wet sand + buff. Inculeds body and jams + material

As far as a top of the line paint work if u do the work the RIGHT way u'll have nice paint

The sick fish is a lot more then paint job.