Had to fire another painter today

[lowrollin70gmc]

In my experience at a collision shop, our last priority was old cars. Now, we only did them for another shop in town, not customers, but they got the back burner because it had the ability to tie up two painters for an entire day, the same time 10+ customer cars could be done in. Also they took up 2-3 work stalls in the body shop side and those techs couldn't turn the hours without full use of their stalls. We never did a classic car for Joe Public, as everybody's definition of a driver is different. My truck is a driver, but she's damn straight and damn shinny, yet has some flaws. For me that's almost too good enough for a driver, others it's not good enough.

For those reasons, I am leary about taking my truck to a collision shop, just spend the money and have a restoration shop do it. A sign of a good shop is a waiting list before they will start. A wait where you keep the truck and bring it to them, not a wait where your truck sits at their shop. A busy shop won't have room to have a stagnant project sitting. If you do end up at a collision shop, possibly talk them into painting it apart and do your own assembly and disassembly, could make it go faster, but you need to do fitment and bodywork on your own, they only spray the goods.

-lowrollin-