Nice video. After watching that I still don't understand why people think these cars can be painted for $5K or less. Tons and tons of work to even do a half decent job. Perfect work is on a whole other planet of labor.
If you are going to paint, best to get the best job done and not cut corners.nothing says I care for my 308 better than a quality paint job
I wonder how much money can be saved by the owner doing much of the disassembly / reassembly. Or for that matter, also the sanding down to bare metal.
There is a lot of labor to be saved in disassembling and reassembling yourself. After that you DON’T want to do any of the stripping yourself because it is incredibly messy and most times you won’t do it the way the shop is used to working so they will have to do touch up work which is annoying and disruptive. Also during the stripping process the shop will be able to gauge and think about the job while formulating a plan of attack. There is little to be saved here and you want to let the shop do the whole job start to finish so there are no excuses if there is a problem down the road.
What shop in so cal can paint a 308 at a price that doesn’t exceed the value of the car like that video?
Man, that looks nice. That color is sweet. That color family of ruby red is the hot car fashion color for the last year, it's been popping up on a bunch of new cars, I especially see it on Mazdas and it's so nice to see new cars come is a shade of non-mono chromatic colors.
Nice video. I'm not sure if the coloured bumpers look as good as it does on a 328. To each his own, though
Paintjob for my gtb was 25k. Bare metal, all windows out, interior out. Worth every cent Image Unavailable, Please Login
The amounts of steps, and steps, and steps that I see on these paint jobs (paint, sand, fill, sand, paint) - did Ferrari themselves spend THIS much time on the original finish?
Ferrari did have several advantages including a virgin shell with nothing on it, specialized jigs to hold all of the sub components, and a production line filled with experienced specialists. From a bare shell the car would have gotten some lead work to correct flaws, high build primer with a sanding before a colored primer followed by colour (this is before base / clear finishes were used). The result would have been good but nothing like what is done today by pro paint shops. Totally original time capsule cars would never score well at a concours should they be presented as ‘restored’
Friend of mine owns a restoration shop. Had a customer that lost control of his 355 and scraped up one entire side of the car. The shop repaired and painted that side. Customer brought it back and complained the factory original paint now looked like crap in comparison to the repainted side. Had them strip and repaint the undamaged side to match. If you watch any video of the factory paint process there is no hand finishing between coats. All robotically applied but human checked for consistent paint depth and to identify flaws. Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat
Cool video! Yeah after doing some paint work myself I know I could never do it as a business because I would charge way more than what most people would pay. It's an incredible amount of work and very very tedious. And all of that work can be down the drain if your reducer or hardner isn't mixed correctly because that particular day it's a little more humid than you expected.... if you happen to pull an air hose over something already painted... if whatever you paint happens to drop... if you are doing stripes and you wait just a LITTLE too long and when you pull the tape the stripe is now ruined. Ask me how I know all of those things can happen AND even when all of that doesn't happen... you put it back and realize that you could have painted more on an edge than you did and it's a little thin... or God forbid you do a metallic and notice you have tiger stripes. Then you do EVERYTHING correctly... the paint looks perfect, and the customer comes out and actually lays down on his back to see if he can find any imperfections when he looks up a panel. No... no thank you. I would never complain to any shop for the cost estimate of any paint job. If it was out of my budget I'd just move along. Before my adventure into paint and body I would probably have been one of those guys, "How much?? I would never pay xxx for a paint job! You're getting ripped off!" Now? Nope... I'll leave the paint to the pros and turn wrenches thank you very much
I never cared for the painted bumper thing, even back in the 80's when it was "normal" looking. I think the black makes a nice contrast. But that's just me.
