Decent driver grade paint job in dallas area

[Lady72nRob71]

Anyone in the DFW area know of a place get a decent driver grade paint job for around 1000? Is there such a thing? How long would it take them to do on average? How long would it last in the sun?

I am asking for a friend who has a late 90's mistsucrap that the paint is coming off in big flakes from the windows down.

I know she should get rid of the thing, but she really wants to keep it.
I told her any new paint job will be worth more than the car itself... I suggest just use come bomb-cans from Lowes!

[Bluevista]

This is the bee's-knees for less expensive automobile paint jobs.

http://www.instructables.com/id/The-...o-paint-your-c

Can't make it any worse.

[gearheads78]

Just run it by Maco. If you pull the lamps and any trim you can before it goes it will come out a decent 20ft paint job.

[Olds64]

Just paint it on with a foam roller!

[Lady72nRob71]

Keep in mind I am not touching this thing. It is not worth even thinking about, let alone working on it. Now if it was an Olds, I would consider some work...

Maaco still exists?? The "home of the $300 paint job"? She wants it back in a few days - any chance? She does not know what painting cars involves...

Maybe I should tell her to get a bucket of paint at Sherwin Williams (she is in the export side of that co.), some brushes, beer, and tell her to have at it (but not at my place...)

[Nilsson]

Sure Maaco is alive and well and their paint jobs don't take long. They shoot it and bake it and call it the shake and bake.

[gearheads78]

I did all the body work on a buddys Nova and he took the stripped shell there. It turned out looking supprisingly well.

[Bluevista]

Just take it to Uncle Earl.
Last time I heard it was around 400 bucks for the good stuff, I remember when it was "$29.95, no ups, no extras".

As usual, leave the doors open and they'll do the interior too.

http://local.yahoo.com/info-18714958...z=Dallas%2C+TX

[boogiel]

We dont have ol earl shieb in the dfw area anymore, but back in the seventies, we used to joke that he would paint Fort Worth Green for $29.95. I took a car to them back in the early seventies with bare metal front fenders. ( i'd already sanded the car and stripped the fenders down) I instructed the sales guy to primer the fenders before painting. Few weeks later i took it to the car wash, and the paint blew off the fenders when i hit it with the water revealing bare metal and NO primer.

[Dan Wirth]

Originally Posted by Bluevista

This is the bee's-knees for less expensive automobile paint jobs.

Can't make it any worse.

Cool, very cool...

[oldsdroptop]

Back in Ohio they used ot have this chain paint body shop called Earl Scheib....they would paint your car for $49.95 back in the seventies....they joke about ol Earl's was if you left the windows down they did the interior for free.....and if you left your lil brother in there they paint him too....you could always tell when they painted a car....they would have the owner take the hubcaps off and they would paint the wheel and the tire....very sporty looking....you have to just imagine it....really.....lol.....Oldsdroptop

[Dan Wirth]

Back in 1970, I bought a 1965 Mustang convertible right out of the Army. My first stop was to have it painted at Earl Schieb's in Van Nuys (near LA). They had a special on some good quality paint for $99.95. The only drawback was the color...battleship gray. After it was done, it actually looked pretty good. A week later the car was stolen, and I never saw it again. The police found the car at the bottom of a cliff in the Sierra Nevada's - completely totalled, a real scrape heep - was sent directly to the area's scrap yard.

Here in Phoenix, Earl Schieb lives. his rates have gone up though. It now cost $349.95. Same paint job deal - same quick wierd non-scientific no frills approach. I can still see the outline of old Earl's head in neon lights above his sign in front of that store, many moons ago.

[Snowdog]

Earl The Pearl, Lol
Must look him up on youtube

[marcar1993]

I don't know how handy this person is with spray cans, but it worked pretty well for me...
My acclaim was peeling really bad, like most acclaims do. I looked into the price for the correct paint, $500 Went to home depot, got all me supplies including rustoleum "saftey blue" for ~$100 and in 3 days (-3 hours, yes 69 hours of straight work) I had this. :tup:








Perfect, it is far from, but for a weekend rush, it came out good. It was peeling on the top of the 1/4s, decklid and the roof. Friday morning I found the paint on the hood let go too, but it went to bare metal, so when I got out of school I ran around, got my supplies, spent 6 hours masking alone(masked right along the factory pin stripe, also NOTHING was removed before painting, and I see NO overspray on anything), and rolled it into the garage (1 am, saturday morning). Spent all of saturday preping the "to be painted" areas and finally got to laying paint in the wee hours of the morning on sunday. By sunday evening it was dry enough to roll out and unmask.
Back together in time for monday morning. Though, it took me a while to recover from that...

[cutlassgal]

LOL! God, Earl Schieb.... I remember those commercials - I haven't heard that name in years!!! Made me laugh remembering them!

[Olds64]

Marcar, that Plymouth Acclaim looks like a champ! I am surprised that it turned out so well for a weekend worth of work. I have done quite a bit of research and browsing and from what I've seen if someone wants to do a paint job on the cheap with a spray can or foam roller it can be done with decent results. Of course, you won't be selling the car at Barret Jackson but it is definitely an alternative to using a HVLP gun.

Despite this I still think I am going to buy a compressor and HVLP gun to paint my car this spring. I could use the compressor around the house anyways.

Good job!

[marcar1993]

Thanks, but by all means, an hvlp gun is "right" way to do it. In my case I needed to get a coat of paint on it to preserve what is there... It doesn't even need to look pretty, just do it's job. I need to drive that acclaim, it's the car that works so the others don't have to (not that I could afford to feed the other's on a daily basis. )
The fact that it looks half way decent is a big plus. Although, I have quite a bit of experience with a spray can. So I had that on my side too.