The Cost of Paint Jobs
 

I've been wondering for a while now how much some of you have been paying for paint and body work on your race cars. I know what we have to charge for overall paint for the average customer that walks into our shop. When you respond please indicate price, what all you had done, single color or multi color ect.Our collision work usually does not allow us time to do this kind of work but every day there are changes in this business that make me think about other aspects of this business.
Jeff Ross
Ross Family Racing

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My mustang is multi color (candy & pearl) from House of color. The body work and paint was
$10,000.00 from circus .

My dragster is the same paint scheme and it was less expensive.

HotRod 161
Quick Rod 161

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Dang! I'd never spend that much on paint. We have always given the work to the first person that wants to do it for free.

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...price just went up on the wagon! LOL ;)

http://www.staginglight.com/images/zac_tri_state.jpg

You do beautiful work Jeff. Put yourself out there, and you'll do well not only for yourself, but people will do well by you.

The entire job on the Turismo (Huge thanks to Parkway Enterprises) retailed about $6,000 through Bob Barber and the gang at Paintworks. Lots of man-hours in the doors and the rest of the body. Two-color.
Before & During: http://www.staginglight.com/stocker/paintworks.html
After: http://www.staginglight.com/stocker/photos99.html

Jeff painted the Volare before I bought it from him. Then I did the lettering, and covered a bunch of it up with contingency decals. ;-)

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Jeff the guy that painted my Nova paints several race cars....thing is he uses them as filler for the insurance jobs....he had my car from may to sep......now I bought new quarters & one fender. He installed them sand blasted everything & painted it with Dupont croma base, base clear......$2100. That was 8 years ago & like I said he uses those cars as filler for his slow times. Hey Jeff where is the wagon now??

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I will paint them all day long for $10,000!!

I usually get $3000 for a multi color job on a dragster. This includes sanding and buffing and inside all panels.

Stockers and Super Stockers are $5000-$6000 for a multi color job, sanded and buffed also.

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just the cost of paint do all work myself even the paint mix my own paint sometimes

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I paint enough stuff in the run of a day I don't screw with it when I'm home! 20 to 25 Kenworths a day! (that's just my 8 hour shift) Well I don't paint them the robots do BUT Nate or I one programed them to do it so I guess I can say I paint them. I have 8 more robot coming.....looked out last night & in my tack area their was a dump truck & a trackhoe!!!!! I was still painting trucks!!!! Oh well if 4 robots are good 12 will be great!

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The 3 things someone always wants out of a body shop are , Fast , Cheap & Good, well pick 2 , because you won't get all 3.
The shop that did my car is a full on modern production shop. Dropped my car off on a friday , by noon Monday it was gutted and just a body & frame setting there. It was done over the winter time and the shop is big enough it wasn't in there way to get crash work done. They figured the retail price would have been around $7,000.00 , and the body didn't need any panels replaced.

http://public.fotki.com/Maliburacr/i.../2006_updates/

Being a damage appraiser I get to a lot of shops and it seems like you always see shops taking in projects for when it's slow. They always seem to still be there a year or longer.
Anyone ( besides Jeff ) know what a gallon of red pigmented auto paint costs ?

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painting a car takes a day or so..but all the preparation to get to the paint takes weeks of sanding straightening and repairing small dents rust etc. the cost of materials are out the roof. it depends on how good a job you want. nice show quality works takes time. and most people want paid for there time...i still like color sanded and buffed laquer jobs. you could do em yourself..the good old days were fun.. i dont see quality like i used too. stickers versus hand painted lettering. and so on..$6000 would be a good deal for a truely nice job. in todays world..