Paint Job Prices

[BB72CHEVKT]

Originally Posted by Raguemoe

In so-cal your looking at $3-4,000 for body work and paint! That's a driver quality paint job inside & out! I will repaint my 71 GMC in the next year or two!

no need its sweet.

[Rokcrln]

I just finished shooting one and it was over 4k in just material

Kevin
LFD Inc.

[GREASEMONKEY72]

i say just take your time and paint it yourself, its not hard, all you need is some tarps and a canopy

[BigSky71]

I have done everything on my resto project myself, working on build primer and blocking now. If I go back 2 1/2 years and just add up the materials, tools, primer and paint products I would say I am at about $2,500 or so. When I am done I will have painted every surface of the truck. Fixing just the exterior and not taking it down to the frame would be cheaper obviously. I bought a little pressurized sandblaster, several cheap then one pro paint gun, gallons and gallons of primer, paint, and chemicals, sanders, many sanding blocks, etc. I have probably spent $300 just on sand paper. I can't go to the auto body store without dropping two bills its seems like...

I started knowing next to nothing about auto body and paint at the beginning, but my skills are improving. Its a real fun learning process. It helps a bunch that my wife is ok with living at a body shop [the mess, the fumes] and parking her car outside in the snow, so I feel lucky about that. The best part is yet to come though when I roll the truck out of the garage done, all my friends that think I was nuts to take apart a functioning truck will be so surprised . Just be sure to not embark on a project of that magnitude though without being honest about the time factor. I work on my truck nearly every day for several hours [8pm to 2am mostly] and I am hoping to drive it before it gets cold here again in September.