Cost Expectation For Full Repaint Job

[Unique427]

What $$ cost expectation should I have for an onyx black with white stripes repaint job?

I understand that black is more fussy.
It is not a color change.
No visible fiberglass body damage.
currently nothing wrong outside the usual hip rock chips and some clearcoat scratches.

Thank you for any insight in advance.

[DanEC]

Kind of a hard question to answer as there are so many variables and different levels of paint shops. Materials have gotten pretty expensive and I'm hearing $3000 is pretty typical for the paint supplies on a better quality paint job. Around here the guys with cars in paint jail right now are paying between $50 - $75/hr for labor - which is probably cheap since I'm in Arkansas. You can probably save some labor by stripping the car down yourself and maybe even doing some preliminary prep and sanding - although it's something you need to have a good idea of how to do.

At one end you have someone like MACCO at probably $1,500 (not sure that will get stripes however) and at the other end you will have a custom paint shop at around $10 - 15,000 would be my guess on a body with no damage to be fixed. I have an old Corvette and it's not real rare to hear of $20,000 paint jobs and quotes on their forum.

[Dwight]

Where are you located? That makes a lot of differences in price.
In North Ala you would pay $2,000 to $5,000

[mrmustang]

Originally Posted by Unique427

What $$ cost expectation should I have for an onyx black with white stripes repaint job?

I understand that black is more fussy.
It is not a color change.
No visible fiberglass body damage.
currently nothing wrong outside the usual hip rock chips and some clearcoat scratches.

Thank you for any insight in advance.

What are your expectations for a finished product?
Rock chips, scratches, micro cracking all need to be factored in.
What about disassembly and reassembly, are you doing that yourself?
Do you want under the hood, trunklid, and doors/soor jambs done?

Stripes, what type, standard Cobra?
Do you want them under the clearcoat so you cannot feel them?

Let's start with these basics and we can then go from there.

[pgermond]

That is a pretty general question. Will you be removing everything, i.e. headlights, taillights, wind shield, dash, roll-bar, and so on? If you are just taking into real good shop, giving them paint codes, and walking out........ probably $5k+.

[twobjshelbys]

I think we've had a recent discussion on this topic. I was quoted 20K for a repaint on mine.

[Dwight]

It takes five hours to remove all the stuff and 10 to 15 hrs to put in back on after paint.

[Dwight]

Oh I forgot about cleaning all the paint shop dust, dirt, grim off the car. That takes about 40 hours.

Dwight

[Alfa02]

I had mine done last year, NOS in gel-coat, to a finished paint job, 4-coats base, 3-coats clear, I put my lights, handles, pipes, etc. back on. Dark Green (Zagato Dark solid color), no stripes, at a well known custom paint shop, (They only do completes) I spent a year looking for just the right shop, that I felt comfortable with. When I say complete, it was, finished under hood, trunk, door jabs. When I walked out of there wasn't much left from 18K. Over 6k just in materials. Again like some had said, your area, will make a big difference. Now granted it's pretty close to a show paint job, but I thought I'm only doing this once. Hopes this help's, Cheers Tom.

[hauss]

1 go to car shows and talk to people 2 go to paint supply houses and talk to people 3 look at cars painted by people that are going to be painting your car. Do these things and you should expect to get a fair price on your paint job.

[Unique427]

Thanks for everyone's input.

I talked to few others around here in the paint biz.

Neighborhood of $20K for a "Tier 1" do everything job seems to be the number that keeps coming up.

[hauss]

Originally Posted by Unique427

Thanks for everyone's input.

I talked to few others around here in the paint biz.

Neighborhood of $20K for a "Tier 1" do everything job seems to be the number that keeps coming up.

Read my first reply

[twobjshelbys]

Originally Posted by Unique427

Thanks for everyone's input.

I talked to few others around here in the paint biz.

Neighborhood of $20K for a "Tier 1" do everything job seems to be the number that keeps coming up.

Whatever it is, I'd wager it would be closer to 20K than 3K.

[spdbrake]

Originally Posted by Dwight

It takes five hours to remove all the stuff and 10 to 15 hrs to put in back on after paint.

Change that to 40 hrs to reassemble because the guy that ripped everything off the car in 5 hours didn't mark the wiring, or tag and bag the hardware with each part. Good luck with with the bucket of assorted hardware he gifted you.

I've been on the reassemble end of many a rip and tear mech's work and had to un-screw it.

[eschaider]

A lot more than you thought to get the quality you want on the car.

Don't shop price. Shop results.


Ed

[legenmetals]

We won't paint over existing paint, we strip all paint. Painting over original paint may cause paint lifting. Materials today will cost $3500.00.


Average paint job turn key is 25-30K @ SO/Cal PaintWorks.

[legenmetals]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...lTizb4EiMUuY63

This is the link to So/Cal.

That's my 65 fastback on the home page.

[Dwight]

Change that to 40 hrs to reassemble because the guy that ripped everything off the car in 5 hours didn't mark the wiring, or tag and bag the hardware with each part. Good luck with with the bucket of assorted hardware he gifted you.

I've been on the reassemble end of many a rip and tear mech's work and had to un-screw it.

I've had Cobras repainted and I removed everything in 5 hrs and reinstalled in 10 -15 hrs. Not that hard. I like boxes and zip lock bags.

[Dwight]

One of the gals in our group had her Cobra repainted a few years back by a shop in Atlanta, Ga.

They media blasted two bad paint jobs off for $3,000. New show quality paint job was $9,000.

Same guy did a GT 40 for $12,000

[Dwight]