<VV> Body, Paint & Interior Prices
Bill Elliott
corvair at fnader.com
Mon Oct 9 16:06:45 EDT 2006
On the east coast, $7-8k is not unreasonable for a driver-quality paint
job (or maybe slightly better) while a top notch one can easily cost
twice that... finding a shop that will do resto work (instead of the
much more profitable insurance crash work) is the real challenge.
I recently paid less than $7k for a "strip to bare metal, fix some small
rust, and respray" on a small car... and well over that for a larger car
requiring more significant rust work.
But then I've also seen Corvair body rust repairs run into 5 figures...
starting with a solid car is an _excellent_ idea....
Bill Elliott
Dave Keillor wrote:
>Quality is the all important parameter. Do you simple want it stripped
>and painted, or do you want it skimmed and extensively block sanded so
>the body is laser straight? How about door jams, underside of trunk lid
>and engine cover? In this part of the country (Minnesota/Wisconsin),
>based on a current estimate and the work I'm having down, the latter
>will run around $8K -- this is at a shop rate of $49 per hour, but the
>guy is super meticulous (does Ferraris', Cobras, etc. However, based on
>other sources, $7-8K is not unreasonable for a top-notch repaint here in
>the midwest.
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>Dave Keillor
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