Paint guy rant!

[64fleetside]

I really don't understand body/paint guys. I guess its the fumes, cause a mental breakdown or maybe the easy insurance money spoils them. I have seen this a 1000 times, has happened to me once or twice(I try to forget). Sorry, wish I could help, I know how it is. I have a 64 ready for paint but can find no one to paint it. I have a friend(?) who is a painter/bodyman, took him almost 2 years to paint another truck of mine(sat in bare metal in his shop almost a year), it came out so-so, but he still claims to be the best in the state. He starts lots of things, finishes very little. Brian

[GreyHoundSteve]

Yeah unfortunatly this story is all too common. I dont know what it is about them either except that just about everyone is like that now a days with any business. No matter who you go with or how much you pay chances are they arent going to deliver on their promise. Its a sad state of affairs when things start getting this bad but its become a trust no one kind of world and if your cant find someone who wont perform the work and get paid in a reasonable mutually benificial manner than keep looking because i know i have about zero faith anymore. The same thing happened to me on my last project. I dropped off my truck that was suposed to be painted in a 1 months time frame and a month and a half later it still hadnt been touched so i picked it back up. Luckily for me i only put a deposit down to cover materials and i picked them up too (though they were short). Im not in the body business but i think the poster above has it right ..... when they are slow they want your work but once they have it they want everyone elses work and forget about you.

[kwmech]

Went thru the same thing recently with my 79 tow truck --took the 'body' guy 6 months to paint it. I told him 'it's just a tow truck', I just want it 1 color and to look half way decent. Just the other night I [as in myself] just finished it up due to the same thing lost screws and parts, electrical not plugged in, bulbs being painted over. I wasn't looking for anything really perfect but it totally looks like ****. Some areas on the hood look like he barely took the time to sand it.