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Ever wonder what is all in involved in a $50,000 Paint Job on a Cobra?
Fascinating video’s.
Episode 1 of 2 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh1jWovhP8Q Episode 2 of 2 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Md9A6DlYTo4 |
For some reason I'm sincerely doubting that this car will ever see much, if any, road use. It'll be a gorgeous trailer/garage queen, and that's fine. It's his car and if that's how he derives enjoyment from it, good for him.
Personally, I prefer to get my jaw rictus from smiling like a fool when I'm tooling down the highway. 40MPH or 110+MPH, the smile is the same. :) I quit feeling real badly about getting a stone chip. (still feel a little badly) but realize it bound to happen to a car that is driven. |
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Well now... Not so fast!
If I can move my 993, it will be sliding into my garage. :D 100% will see driving time! |
Hmmmm, and all this time I thought they just charged you $50k but gave you the ol' run-of-the-mill $20k paint job.:cool:
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I'm not seeing the strip, prep, repaint, refinish, and R&I of all components adding up to $50,000.
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The kid kind of looked like a descendant of Earl Scheib to me.:cool:
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$29.95 any car any color!!!!!!!!!
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No Cobra Paint job is worth that . It looks nice and all..
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The narration sounds like if the characters
from Peaky Blinders did car paint instead of drinking, smoking and stealing stuff. Not seeing $50K painting that. A McLaren or Ferrari all that and probably more. |
Polishing my Kirkham was much much much cheaper. Who needs stinking paint.
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Bill S., you know what a 50k paint job would be like, I take your comments over the guy in the Video who, if I walked into his shop, I would more likely turn around and out the door I'd go. A little too much foolishness going on. The start of the video: "Frying the tires on a E-Type", that's just bad form, better yet that's just stupid. Don't get me started on the buffer smoking a Cigar while buffing a car, good lord.
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As an example, I personally know of a 34 Rolls Royce Phantom II, which was disassembled, stripped of its aging 60's era lacquer repaint, prepped, repainted, and reassembled, and the total was less than $50,000....And this was in the winter of 2021 and spring/summer of 2022.
Bill S. |
Good detail work but I’m not seeing $50,000 there either.
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I'm not qualified to judge the paint. But I do like how it came out. I kept screaming inside "Stop touching it"!
He did say it was 350 hours (not man hours). That may or may not be billable hours. But with good products I couldn't venture to say a total. I don't know if $120-$140 per hour would be unheard of. Now was that 50K in USD or BPS? |
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50K GBP = 60.9K USD |
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Not even billable hours, as I cannot come up with more than 106 hours, which would be complete R&I of the bolt on parts, drivetrain, and interior, strip, prep, and repaint...Even if billed at an unheard of $200 an hour, I'm still coming in at $21,200.....I know high end restoration shops that can't get $200/hr, so the shop in question, sorry, no. Bill S. |
My answer to the original question and title of the thread; no.
I feel it's ludicrous that a painter charge that amount, and have the same opinion that someone would agree to pay that amount. But apparently those two people found one another and are both satisfied. |
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On the first cruise with that $50K shine
you'll get a stoplight review from this guy. |
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