Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:57:59 -0700
Reply-To: Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
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From: Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
Subject: Re: Painting
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I took 'body shop' in high school... you signed up on a waiting list and you
paid for the materials (and I believe a small fee that went toward other
overhead items involved with the course) and you got your paint job labor
free in exchange for giving your car up to a bunch of adolescent goofs. If
you preferred your goofs a little older they had a similar program at the
area vocational school.
We turned out a pretty nice job- we actually weren't allowed to give back a
car with a less-than-professional result. The worse the beater the better as
it gave us more opportunities to work with different problems. You might
check around your area and see if there is a program like that available, if
time isn't much of an issue. It's a hell of a lot cheaper than paying all
that labor.
If you find a program and don't want to wait, talk to one of the better
students and see if they're taking work on the side. We used to make money
on the weekends doing that. We'd the prep in the driveway and book a rental
paint booth for a day and do the main shooting there. Beat the hell out of
mowing lawns.
There are shops around here that turn away older cars that actually need
work because they can make more money on straight paint jobs that require
little body work/prep. One shop here refused to take one of my folks' cars
because it required some minor welding and rust-out repair and they told me
the vehicle wasn't worth the work (as if that's any of their business) and
it wasn't worth their time. Nice business manner.
Robert
----- Original Message -----
From: <JordanVw@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: Painting
> In a message dated 10/11/06 3:14:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> magikvw@GMAIL.COM writes:
>
>
>> If cost is a major option - what are the lists thoughts on having a bus
>> painted at an Earl Sceib or similar mass painting shop. I tend to be very
>> apprehensive of their claims. However, what is really the difference
>> between
>> what they will do for $750 or what a small independent shop will do for
>> thousands?
>>
>>
>
> well u get what you pay for. a $750 paint job by earl schieb looks like
> a
> $750 earl schieb paint job.
>
> im serious.. people will come up to you and say.."you had your van
> painted
> at earl schieb , didnt you?... or you may get some who will say "is that
> an
> earl schieb $750 paint job, or a Maaco $495 paint job?" you get the
> picture
> :<)
>
> chris