The Cost of Paint Jobs

[bob gonier]

Originally Posted by Bud Lefevre

The 3 things someone always wants out of a body shop are , Fast , Cheap & Good, well pick 2 , because you won't get all 3.



Anyone ( besides Jeff ) know what a gallon of red pigmented auto paint costs ?

I just got a price on a gallon of Dupont "viper" red in chromapremier basecoat and lets just say I didnt pay that much for the car I'm painting !!!! If you need to buy everything in one shot to do a overall paint/resto you can easily pay $2500 or more for paint/materials . Forget about the color........ anyone priced a gallon of any high end primers !!!!!




bob

[Jeff Lee]

First was the artist rendition. I think I had $2800 just in materials on my car. Dupont's version of House of Kolor. Primer, silver base and then the color and clear. It started out as the "sponsor special", materials only and turned into $10K all done. Best Appearing first time out though...

Also, you can't get a paint job better than Maaco at a retail shop for less than $5K on a street car. EPA drove the cost up. So if you look at that then talk race car graphic design, $10K isn't horrible. That's retail of course.