Leave the windows down and we'll do you're interior for free!

 

Just curious, has anyone ever seen one of his paint jobs ?? I can only imagine what one looked like...

 

I had my 72 Biscayne painted by Eral, circa 1978.
I did all the prep. Delivered it to them no trim in primer.
They didn't do the jambs. The paint job was decent, especially for a high school student that made $60/week.
I cut the jambs with a spray bomb.
$30 worth every penny.

 

My mom had her Cadillac painted by then in the early 80s, the paint was fine, the prep work sucked(masking).

 

Do people repaint their cars anymore, other than body repairs?

 

Back in the early 80s I bough a 1970 Supreme with a Earl Scheib paint job. They literally painted right over globs of mud and tar that were on the car.

 

The advertisement stated “The whole car” and that literally means the whole car. 😉

 

Couldn’t waste time on details.

 

Family had a '68 Opel Kadett Rallye 4 speed painted by Earl Scheib in 1971. It was a color change and two-tone with stripes for $39.95. It was presentable.

Paintarama was in town also, they painted our '61 Beetle for $19.95!

 

If you really didn't like your shiny emblems, Earl was the way to go.

 

Quick bath, maybe scotch pad it, blow and go..I worked at a car lot as a lot boy in 1974, we got a few of those Earl jobs in as trade ins.. My job was to clean them up and make them look better to sell..lol.. I think the used an old enamel as cheap as they could, rough job..

 

Some people on this post say not bad & others are bad, sounds like yours was one of the bad ones ! I don't know how they could of painted a car for that price, the materials were more then that.

 

Work quality did and does vary widely between franchise locations. There is a Maaco in town that will do very nice work at reasonable prices. Did a small car about 2 years ago for $8k and it was quite nice.

If I were having an econo job done I'd expect just that and prep everything myself within reason