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jspell:
This forum is a great place to learn and...vent! I finally have a chassis and engine builder I can trust and they stick to their word. So guess what, I got stuck by the paint & body guy. He calls me the other day to inform me my panels are done all 8 of them for my shorty body FED. I dropped them off Dec. 29th??? and I was quoted $50 / hr plus materials. My father owned his own body shop, I've learned a little about paint work. I figured any body guy worth his butt, can prep and paint these panels & scoop in 20 hrs. So I figured the bill would be between $1500 and $2000, wrong....he tells me I owe him $3700....which breaksdown to $1000 materials and $2700 labor. Granted the color is a PPG special color and the panels are painted on both sides. He said the buffing took a long time...give me a break. Comments please...you can make me feel better or worse..I can take it. P.S. - this is why I gave up racing 20 years ago, I see some things never change !!!!!!!!!!
coupemerc:
Post some pictures! I ended up going with Nub Grafix on mine. My paint cost was a little less but in that range. It has candies, flake, gold leaf, airbrush work and pinstriping.
JeffV8:
Nub does great work from what I saw on OCC show
jspell:
I'll post pics soon...CoupeMerc, all I got was one color, no striping or air brushing or even two tone..crazy
coupemerc:
--- Quote from: JeffV8 on May 10, 2015, 03:19:31 PM ---Nub does great work from what I saw on OCC show
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Yeah, Nub does some insane stuff. I picked him because he did such a cool job on Brian Darcy's "Lethal Injection" dragster and he knows the tricks to keep paint on magnesium panels. Great guy to work with too.
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