Looking at different possibilities for paint and was wondering how much this would cost. I'm thinking Black with silver stripes but honestly most of these would be great.

 

Depending on how much body work is involved I would say between 8-12k at a respectable shop. Shady McGrady would probabaly do it around 2500 to 5k.

 

Damn, I really need to learn to paint....

 

All depends on the condition and how far your gonna go, but unless your aiming at Barrett Jackson With an x-durby car....10K kinda high

Also...when it comes to paint, its quality not price. I've seen crapy high dollar paint jobs from brand shops with finger prints in the paint as much as I've seen... mcgrady do killer work because it was more passion then payday.

But 2500 to 6K can be expected in most cases.
Just do some leg work, go to shops and mcgrady...get references, see work (not just pics)& talk to past customers.
People love to talk about there experiences.

 

Quality costs! With paint, go big or go home.
You say you want - you say how much?

Well, errr, ahhh, meh, sure, yeah, ok. Not being mean to you, but you need to articulate and specify. You like therefore you want, well.......

If those pics are an indication of point B, you need to specify and articulate point A - your starting point. If your starting point is a VW bug - it's gonna cost!! T-tops, vert, rust, dings & dents, bumpers.............?

Quality base paint, clear, and labor will run $2200-$2500 (regional differences). That's if you take a paint ready car to a quality shop and purchase quality paint.
Weatherstripping (not junk) - $1500 (vert is more, ha ha)
$4000

Now let's talk body work - the canvas - THE MOST IMPORTANT!
A quality job is going to take everything off - doors, hood, hatch, mirrors, headlights, bumpers, spoiler, door handles, moldings, gas cover, side markers, etc. = Labor X2 (put back on). Are the bumpers cracked/deformed/eyelets ripped? Are all your panels rust free, perfectly straight, no door dings? Getting all those panels straight is not cheap and most people cheap out. If a mechanical sander is used it will be wavy. Hand sanding costs and is an art. The fingertips of an artist are more discerning than your eyes. If you're not willing to have it hand-sanded, then cheap out everywhere but a decent paint - got to the bar with the money you saved and park it in the lot with the other patrons (this is a viable option, but it's not point B you showed). You'll be lucky to get this done for $5k - more likely $6000+.
$10,000 is a reasonable starting point and could go higher - if you're changing a bug into an f-body (ha ha).

 

Hey, thanks for the great reply!

The "point b" I showed in those pics was more about the paint pattern than the quality, this will be a daily driver in a place with winters (this matters because they dump gravel on the roads which gets kicked up in spring) so it will get minor scratching. I am not saying I don't want a good paint job but I am not looking for showroom/pageant quality. I was hoping to spend around $5000. If I am going for stripes ill probably up to around $6000. The car will be a T-Tops 87-89 Iroc-z with a cowl hood. it will most likely have minor denting about a quarter size max. I will remove all rust before sending it in, I will also strip the paint off and remove the trim.

How would I best go about painting the engine bay? Should I empty it and send it on a flat bed when I get it painted or should I just paint it myself?

 

Take out motor, plastic wrap anything you're not disturbing, rattle can enamel with matching color. Install finished motor, then do body/paint. Avoid painting then major wrenching with new paint. easier to move around, also.

 

All right that is what I was thinking. Someone told me to paint then to the the work but I thought that was just asking to scratch the new paint.

 

I'm flattered that you picked my car as an example. Heres how it was done. =

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/body...nt-photos.html

 

It's a beautiful car, actually the one that convinced me that Camaros kick firebirds ***'s. How much prep did you do prior to sending it to your painter friend and how much of a friend discount did he give you, I.e. how much should I expect to pay without a painter friend.

 

I just painted my 71 for $300 in material.

If I were to do it for someone, I would not do it for less then $3000.

There is a ton of prep time involved in a good paint job. Spraying the paint is the easy part!

I did so much sanding my elbows felt like they were on fire for two days!

 

https://plus.google.com/photos/10828...457?banner=pwa

Here was my 300ZX before during job and after I thought it as incredible and looks just as good as those above. In person people were blown away. I didnt do underbody but the stripped all parts pieces glass trim doors etc.

they painted as low as they could go with engine in

whole job with welding in new quarter, dupont heavy clearcoat color sanded too and lifetime warranty

$3000

let me know if link works i made it public.

 

He only wanted me to sand some of the ground effects,door james,front bumper cover,all of the small parts like mirrors,door handles ,key hole cover,things like that. Also I did all of the clean up in the shop when we were done .He did the main part of the car and hood.It was about 6 years ago that it was done so I don't remember exactly how but it included every step that can be done including a guyed coat,bulldog on the front bumper cover,etc. Like I said he looks fairly young in the photos but I can assure you the man has major skills with this kind of work and even has his own shop up north of me that only deals with custom and restoration work.At times thats doing the whole car replacing and fixing interiors, not just prep and paint.
As far as money was concerned the materials were at a shop discount and then there was money included in the price concerning all new badging and weather striping. He mainly wanted enough to take care of some bills he had. He thought $1,500.00 was a fair price for his pocket,but I did ask what he thought it would cost to get a top of the line quality paint job that was done right at another shop. He said $5,000.00 would be close.

 

Nice job !

 

So if I were to go get a similar job done on a camaro I should expect to pay around 4-5k? My max budget for paint was 5 so that would work with me.

 

That sounds about right. Call around to different shops and ask if they’re interested in painting your car first. If they say yes they do full prep and paint jobs tell them what you would like "without" telling them what you’re willing to pay. It’s difficult to give a quote over the phone without actually looking closely at your car so make an appointment and see what they say. Let them start talking about money first than work from there.

 

Alright, the earliest I plan on painting is next winter ('14/'15) so I will probably not call yet. But this thread has helped a ton, thanks all, especially ron u.s.m.c.

 

I paid 5k for my paint. All I did was drop it off pick it up and hand over cash. Pictures of work can be seen in the body section title of thread is "Time to paint 1990 IROC".

 

So I have thinking about the whole paint thing and I think I have settled on the attached paint job. The stripes aren't exactly how I would do them, I was thinking slightly darker red and stripes identical to Ron U.S.M.C.'s. I would use the same spoiler as Ron and RAMAIR21's hood. I would use the American Racing mainline 17x8 rims and the bfgoodrich gforce sport comp-2 tires.

My 5k budget should be fine for the paint, right? I don't want to pay more than that but I know black is often more expensive due to the need for serious prep work. The 5k is just for paint, the hood, spoiler, rims, and tires, are separate.

Some extra questions, how much would the hood and spoiler cost, best guess? If I were to budget 7.5k for the exterior, as in paint, hood, rims, tires, spoiler. Would that be enough?

 

Nice but I would not stripe the top of the car. Just me. If you want a wing like mine you will have to locate a 1988 sport coupe and take the whole hatch.

I found mine at a wrecking yard for $60.00.

Some info on the wing. It’s called a "short wing" some also call it the "one year" wing and was actually only made for half a year in 1988.

 

Sorry about that, didn't think. The car is going to be ttop. So no stripes on roof. Allright, I am trying to picture it, does the normal wing run onto the rear panels? If so would I need to do a panel swap as well?

 

It's going "to be" a t-top???? Is it not now??

 

I'm planning on buying a camaro next year to restore. I have an 86 bird right now. Mine has t-tops and I love them so I will buy a camaro with them.

 

We had my brother's camaro painted red with black stripes a few weeks ago. Stripes are painted on not stickers. Total cost was ~6800 but he needed a new door, fender, rear bumper, and bumper support as well.

 

wow
I'll be honest here I am a cheap *** really am. Because I would never pay that much for paint ! Period. it's not that hard to do the body work. yes artist very true some guys can take a bashed in fender and make it look like gold others can't do that. but body work isn't hard it's time consuming. if you can't seem to get a panel straight replace it fenders are cheap better bumpers than your torn or ripped one is cheap. hoods are cheap hell if you are not in a hurry you can find great deals for instance my brand new 4 inch steel cowl hood $189.00. I have painted many cars not for a job I have no formal training in it. YouTube videos for spraying gun setup is about it yes if I get into trouble I probably wouldn't know what to do. but $6500-$10000 never pay that much.

for instance my iroc the front bumper was good chin spoiler shot replaced it. fenders were shot for 50 bucks bought junk yard ones in really good shape until my son ran it over with the gator. picked up a parts car $0.00 traded for a th350 torque arm bracket had good fenders and doors replace mine with them. hood sold the iroc hood with lovers for 200 bought the cowl hood for $189.00. now I had a straight body. took air craft remover and stripped all metal parts of the car down to bare metal. sanded ground effects and bumpers down. had one rocker that was dented beyond repair drilled out the spot welds with a spot weld bit. bought a new rocker from Sherman and associates. welded new one in. smoothed with very little bondo mostly grinding welds smooth and reweld until enough metal was there for very little bondo. used etching primer over whole car yes fenders ground effects and bumpers were removed. sprayed whole car in single stage urethane. total price of color $200.00 primer I think was about $100.00 painted it myself and spent many days wet sanding bought new weather-stripping for T-tops I think it was 187.00 from summit. made the graphics myself on my vinyl cutter . car was done and looked great. jump forward 3 years of kids in and out of garage one time with a cherry picker drug down the side of the car. so a repaint was in order. this time I went with PPG shop line base clear and the same etching primer sanded car down again leaving most paint on from first paint job just scuffed and smoothed the chip areas. paint this time with tape paper and odds and ends total price $389.00 reshot the car this time left everything on the car minus the rear hatch and hood. but completely disassembled everything weather stripping back out door handles lights locks emblems. and it is now painted and wet sanded again. It looks much nicer this time. but I still haven't even came to the $6500 guess price. and that was with 2 paint jobs. here it is before first paint and second paint pictures wise












so what I am saying if you do most of the work the price can be brought down drastically. still need to do my buckets tho
as it sits right now ! spun #5 bearing in the big block replaced it with a different big block and it ended up have a slue of problems first being bad rings and after removal to replace the rings found a cracked piston and all oil rings froze up in the pistons. so I am now in the process of rebuilding the bottom end of my first motor. should be done this weekend. just ordered all new front steering parts too maybe it will drive as good as it looks this time. there was too much steering play for my liking.

 

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jhainer, I always love looking at you car. The style and theme is the closes I’ve ever seen to mine and looks fantastic.

On a different note. IMO,concerning some one that has never even picked up a paint gun and then trying to learn how to paint by watching YouTube even though I’m sure it can be done is a little far off when comparing it to a man like Mike (my friend and pro-painter)and the amount of skill/technique he offers when painting. Watching him work is amazing. He can do more in an hour doing it right than someone brand new to paint can in a day. Or longer even depending on how good he is with his hands. He makes it all look easy and that's the problem. People see this and say WOW I can do that. Sure you can. After being trained by someone that has that skill level and has the proper tools/equipment to get it done. Mike has over 20 years invested in the triad and that's what you're paying for. He knows what paint/primer/and all of the materials he will need to get it done his way.And again his way is what youre paying for.Buying the best and hiring a man like mike to do the work would have been well worth the $5,000.00 he said a different shop would be likely to charge. I only paid $3,000.00. A lot of that had to do with how fast he is.

I'm not saying that if you have a ton of time on your hands and the skill potential and the tools necessary including at least a garage set up like apaint booth. Than sure give it a try.



Side note = you can learn anything but there’s a few things I believe should be left to the pros. Differential work, major engine overhaul/building a engine from scratch and if you want a professional looking paint job .Paint.

Jhainer, you have major skills, and none of that was intended to belittle that. Love your car. You’ve done a beautiful job with your paint.

 

No belittling takin it's all good thank you I will say this I have had no formal training. I just know what I want and spend my spare time getting the way I want it my theme was based on a 69 Camaro started out as a big block 5 speed hugger orange with black stripes Old school look.

 

That has to be a varient of "bright red" GM paint... it sure looks like it.. getting the wifes done in bright red.. it looks friggin killer!! I LOVE RED! I have a little red corvette..