Post up your cheap paint jobs!
.... I had no money, and the painter did the door jambs for free, of course he also painted half my dashboard, but it looked good!..lol
LOL, indeed. A buddy of mine from HS got his car painted at Earl Scheib. "I'll paint any car for $99.95." Indeed they did. He took his car in for a dark green metallic. Masking the glass, lights, mirror, door handles, and bumper, the car got "painted". The car looked like a pickle. The paint had runs in it and the first time he drove it in the rain, the cheap paint started flaking off.
I helped him clean the paint out of lock cylinders that had not been masked. IIRC, Scheib died in the 90s and the business folded in the following decade.
The funny part is that his dad ran a body shop. He showed us what was wrong with the Scheib job. He told his son. "This is why I charge what I do." Tommy worked for his dad all summer. Three weeks before school took back in, Tommy and his dad prepped and shot the 55 Bowtie in a two-tone metallic green.
Here's my MAACO special from a few years back. I did some of the prep work, which may have forced their hand to be more attentive to their prep. The paint job ran about $500.00 and was MAACO's E5 (per body tag) in a single stage urethane/clearcoat. The car was parked under a canopy and washed regularly. Paint held up well til I sold it last June. I haven't seen the car since I sold it, so there's no telling how the paint is doing under new stewardship.
