Interesting post from another forum

[Poorboy]

This has got to be one of the funniest threads I've read in a long time....

the guy is exagerating a bit....a really intense and insane street rod paint job is about 20k tops...most are about 8-12k...I've dealt with street rodders for 15 years and listened to a lot of stories

The part about the breathing is for older type finishes that really need polishing more often to keep them shining. Laquer's especially will really glow without wax if the are polished often and really kept buffed..

Please go back in history and remember putting wax on cars is not that old...any historians????50's....

So this guy never grew up and is probably an old fart with old ideas and never did try to grow or was brain washed by an old school fool

Most street rodders I know have clearcoats for durability and outrageous new basecoats under them....

 

[Scottwax]

Here is a tip that I saw on another forum about car care....





I guess Autopia is truly the utopia of car care!:bow

I regularly plug Autopia in both the detailing forums I mod on other boards. I can't usually get to my forums until the evening, or someone will have questions about Klasse or Zainos, and I've never used either, so I can't give them first hand information.



Must be working, I have something like 14 referrals!

 

[lalaland]

I use Proactive on my car. After using the "cleanser" that slightly exfoliates and opens the pores, I use the "toner" which pulls the paint tight and gets rid of orange peal, then I move on to the "restoring lotion" to give it that unwaxed-oxydized look of a 1980s accord that's been through the gulf war.



When my paint wakes up and answers the phone, it goes "grrrrrrrrrr."



It's name is Esmeralda.

LOL !!! :xyxthumbs





Maybe the 50k price tag is a sum of the number of times he had to repaint the car due to the oxidating and corroding properties of carnauba! "It's alive!"

 

[rd_volvo]

I heard from a few different sources that Junior Conway likes and uses Blitz on his Ferrari's. So if Junior uses carnauba I think we can.

 

[C. Charles Hahn]

$50,000 just for a paint job???!!! Is he kidding?!



For that price the paint better do more than just "breathe!!"

surprisingly enough, you can actually pay this much for a paint job. If the paint is all House of Kolor, Sikkens, or some other really high-quality branded paint, applied with all kinds of effects (hand airbrushed flames/etc. for example) it can get up in that range (or so quotes a guy who owns a shop local to me.) Even as ridiculous as it may seem.

 

[Scott P]

Here's his reply in the GP forum:



OK- here we go... Scott- Im not exactly sure who makes Excite, but I buy it from Aratari Auto Finishers out of Rochester NY.. And Red98GT...Obviously your experience in the Auto Industry has been either short or sheltered, because you can easily get a paint job at $50,000. Use some good paint, just for starters, some Sikkens and Dupont paints can run into the thousands for ONE gallon. And averaging 2 to complete a car, theres a good start. Keep in mind 2 things, first of all, no car your gonna paint is perfect, all require some kind of repair and/or prep work. At $50/hr that gets expensive. 2nd, Ive been workin in body/restoration shops since I got out of high school, Im rather familiar with the trade...





I wonder what he thinks about wax for the few of us that don't have $50,000 paint jobs. I won't be able to get mine into the shop for it's $50k job until this fall. They are all backed up!!

 

[cackleberry]

I dont use wax, I dont believe in it. Ive been building street rods since I got out of school, and I would never use wax on a $50,000 paint job.

Guess I won't be buying any street rods from this guy!! :LOLOL