![]() I like worn, thin original paint, but I greatly dislike rust. Now, with that being said, I'm a little different about patina. The vehicle has character, like a middle-aged woman with a killer figure. See Item #1.ģ): If it's patina'd, it's a lot of fun because you want to drive it all the time. ![]() Everybody would ask the same question, and it drove me nuts, and I had it painted. I had a '69 Z/28 back in the '80s that I drove in grey primer for 3 years before I painted it. ![]() The bad part is, you are constantly asked the question, "When are you going to paint it?". You can lean on the fenders when you work on it, you can touch it up easily, and you can freshen up the primer easily. It takes the enjoyment out of it.Ģ): If it's primered, it's a different story. You park it a mile away from everyone else, and you never let it leave your sight at a show. Honestly, the most fun ones where the ones with the faded paint jobs and here's why:ġ): If it's painted with a big-dollar paint job, you don't want to drive it for fear of hurting the paint. I've had 'em shiny with big dollar paint jobs, primered, and patina'd. The cost was in taking it from old paint to bare metal and many hours of primering and blocking to get it perfect. The photo by the way was taken three years ago. I'm thinking that the paint was about 5 years old in the photos but I saw the truck a few weeks ago and it still looks like it just rolled out of the paint shop this year. The body is about as close to flawless as you will find even though the truck gets driven to at least one event a week along with being driven several times a week. It was taken from a really nice truck with a great body to what you see here at a friend of mine's body shop several years ago. ![]() This truck has a $10,000.00 paint job on it. The cost of the paint and materials has gotten pretty high these days and that is one thing that contributes to the high cost of nice paint along with labor costs. Over the past 50 years I've found that body and paint men are the original moonlighters and many will take on side jobs after their day of working for someone else in a regular shop. Am I way off?Īround here at least a lot depends on how much of the work you can do yourself and how well you can do it.Īround here if you can get the vehicle to the ready to shoot the final primer stage there are a few guys who are really good with a paint gun who will shoot the paint for a few hundred dollars. I thought you could get one done for around $1,500-$2,000. Not to get into the discussion between whether the patina look is good or bad, but I am curious, is it that hard to save up for a shop paint job? Me being a newbie, I honestly have no idea what they go for. We always see imperfections in our own rides that nobody else even notices. I am not into All the polishing and waxing another is slight imperfections wont show.Less waxing more time to enjoy. That is one reason that I an going with a satin finish. In hindsight I see the advantages to the patina look and have come to appreciate it.īottom line, whatever floats your boat man! I think it's fine if you don't sweat perfection with respect to paint and body - there is a 'cool factor' in a 40/50 year old truck that looks it but runs like a new one. This is about fun and enjoyment - if you're stressing every tiny detail and spending you're life savings in pursuit of perfection you're probably going to end up broke and disappointed. If I had it to do all over again I'd worry a whole lot less about perfect paint and focus on enjoying my truck - in other words a patina/rustic look has a great deal of appeal now that I know what it takes to get a decent grade paint job. The stress, frustration, aggrevation took a lot of the fun out of the project - I had a desire for perfection but had to learn to reconcile that with my extreme amature status.Īfter all that, when I go to a show, if I want my vehicle judged (which I do not) it's easy for them to pick my paint apart, using some guys vehicle with a $8k (outsourced) paintjob as the standard. In my opinion it looks great, but I can walk you around the truck and point out every tiny flaw. I learned tons and value the experience, but when it's all said and done I worked my butt off for a very decent but far from professional paint job. I invested hundreds of hours in sanding, painting, stripping, resanding, repainting, wetsanding, buffing, buffer burning, stripping, repsraying, wetsanding.you get the point. I spent hundred$ buying tools, hundred$ buying paint and hundred$ buying sandpaper. I spent months looking for someone to paint my truck for under 6K - only in frustration did I finally decide I would do it in my garage with my very basic tools and total lack of experience and know-how.
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