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Originally Posted by scooter
I would disagree, paint and materials are cheap compared to the labor.
You want a good paint job there is a lot of time in the preperation of the body before it gets painted. You can put an "expensive" paint on a poorly prepared car and it will still look like crap. You put a "cheap" paint on a well prepared cr and it is going to look a whole lot better, may not last long though. Pretty much all the paint, paper and tape you would possibly need for a car is going to cost a lot less that $1,000, I would say more like 5-600 actually
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I don't disagree that the labor and prep cost a good amount but, your $500-600 for materials is low. HardcoreZ28 states $1000 for GOOD materials which is what I was thinking. 10 years ago a buddy of mine painted my 77 K20. The paint and materials alone were $600 at that time, his cost. Granted it was a full paint (inside of the;cab, fenders, bed, underside of the hood, everything) so, it took more paint than a car. But, the price on paint as with everything else has gone way up.