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LS short box · 10-01-2022, 04:58 PM

Don't know if it's an option for you but when I had my 68 C10 painted the body shop "let" me do all the block sanding. I took parts up to the shop one at a time. Primed and sanded. Primed and sanded. I can tell you no one at any body shop is standing in line to block sand. We did a skim coat of bondo. A layer of sprayable polyester and then two rounds of regular primer.
With all the materials, shop labor for painting, wet sanding and buffing it was about 6K US.
I stripped all the panels, cab and misc parts to bare metal.
It takes a ton of time to disassemble/reassemble the truck to do a a really top notch paint job.

10-01-2022, 04:58 PM	#5
LS short box Registered User Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Carlos MN Posts: 2,227	Re: Paint Quote - What is Reasonable? Don't know if it's an option for you but when I had my 68 C10 painted the body shop "let" me do all the block sanding. I took parts up to the shop one at a time. Primed and sanded. Primed and sanded. I can tell you no one at any body shop is standing in line to block sand. We did a skim coat of bondo. A layer of sprayable polyester and then two rounds of regular primer. With all the materials, shop labor for painting, wet sanding and buffing it was about 6K US. I stripped all the panels, cab and misc parts to bare metal. It takes a ton of time to disassemble/reassemble the truck to do a a really top notch paint job.