[6pack] Painting advice

[Tom Lofgren]

James,

My son and I are just finishing repainting a 240Z in base coat/clear coat.
We used Dupont Chromabase, which is a high quality paint with Nason (lower
cost Dupont product) primers underneath.  Just the material cost was about
$1500.  You didn't say how much Maaco was going to charge you, but I would
be asking lots of questions if it's not at least a couple thousand.

I have heard stories about good shops that have the "cheap" shop names, and
yours could be one of them.  They are indeed all different.

Good luck!
Tom

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:05 PM, James_ <jattr6 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I need a fresh paint job.
>
> Single stage or base coat/clear coat?
>
> I found a local guy who works on all sorts of classic cars. He wants to do
> a
> single stage urethane and needs several months to sand, a few rust repairs
> and
> paint.
> $7500
> Alternatively...
>
> My neighbor saw a tr4 getting painting at ... Wait for it...Maaco.
> So I paid them a visit. They have loads of classics and newer cars they are
> painting, restoring, rust repair etc. It was actually quite impressive.
> Most
> finished products had been delivered but a couple cars were still there. On
> one such car I could see some dust specks in the paint but it was an
> impressive job overall.
> Now, Maaco has always been synonymous with ... Well ... Crappy work.
> Additionally, they suggest clear coat/base coat.
>
> So what do folks think about which paint method and will Maaco's work
> really
> hold up and be good? Guess it is just paint and the important bit is the
> prep
> work. And gets down to the shop. One Maaco may be rubbish while the one I
> visited my have great
> Craftsmen.
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