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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:12:49 AM EDT
Those Earl Scheib commercials on TV were memorable. "I'll paint any car for 99.95" spoken in his slow southern drawl.
A bit ($10) before my time.  Attached File |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:15:11 AM EDT
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No. I remember commercials for Maaco paint jobs, but never for that cheap.
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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:15:43 AM EDT
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I remember when an Earl Scheisse paint job was a lot cheaper than that.
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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:17:18 AM EDT
[#3]
Maybe the guy wasn't a crook after all.
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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:19:23 AM EDT
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I actually knew a guy who had one of their paint jobs. However, he did most of the prep himself. It wasn't terrible, and it helped sell the car asap.
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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:21:57 AM EDT
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Is this the quarterly Earl car paint job thread?
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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:22:34 AM EDT
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Remember everyone, inflation is theft. Which is why they tell you it's only 2%, and that somehow even 2% is supposed to be good.
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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:25:08 AM EDT
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No but pepperidge farm remembers this topic from the other month.
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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:28:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No but pepperidge farm remembers this topic from the other month. Sorry I missed it .  Was searching something and saw his name. Of course at this point, what hasn't been discussed here ? |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:28:53 AM EDT
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No UPS
no extras |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:33:43 AM EDT
[#10]
No, but pretty sure I've bought a few cars over my lifetime that had one done.
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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:33:55 AM EDT
[#11]
I remember those commercials. I figured they used Krylon.
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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:36:42 AM EDT
[#12]
Uh oh, better get Maaco.
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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:38:12 AM EDT
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Quoted: I remember when an Earl Scheisse paint job was a lot cheaper than that. Yea, my wife paid extra, $99, it was $69 or $79 at the time to get the inside of her door frames, inside of the hood and trunk painted on her Ford Pinto. Still wish we had that car. Tough little ride. It really wasn’t a bad job. She got a metal flake light blue, coverage was good and it still looked brand new 4 years later when we sold it. |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:42:52 AM EDT
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Quoted: Those Earl Scheib commercials on TV were memorable. "I'll paint any car for 99.95" spoken in his slow southern drawl. A bit ($10) before my time. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/48515/e893878a1d0085342b5c0465fe298266_png-1995306.JPG |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:43:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No. I remember commercials for Maaco paint jobs, but never for that cheap. Uh oh, better get Maaco. But, yeah, last Scheib ad I saw, 20-25 years ago, it was $199.95 |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:49:05 AM EDT
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Cheap paint jobs still exist.
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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:49:22 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sorry I missed it . Was searching something and saw his name. Of course at this point, what hasn't been discussed here ? I dunno. A bunch of gearheads talking about cars. I only skimmed it. |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:50:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No. I remember commercials for Maaco paint jobs, but never for that cheap. |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:56:30 AM EDT
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I have worked with a couple of people who got one of those paint jobs. Where good old Earl made his money was the body work to get it ready to paint. He said he would paint it, not prep it for painting.
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Posted: 6/29/2021 12:59:56 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Where good old Earl made his money was the body work to get it ready to paint. Rumor has it they used steel wool to fill the rust holes. |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 1:01:26 AM EDT
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Yes and I remember it was a case of getting what you paid for.
My buddy took his '57 Ford ragtop in for a dark maroon paint job and it came out with a color of purple not seen on a man's car in the mid-'60s. 
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Posted: 6/29/2021 1:15:55 AM EDT
[#22]
Can't even buy the masking tape, paper, and plastic to do that job these days.
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Posted: 6/29/2021 1:22:02 AM EDT
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We had one done in the early 1980's on a bug we had baja kit put on. There idea of sanding the fiberglass was to let the disk grind over onto the chrome headlight bezels. It wasn't a bad paint job except for the sanding crap. It lasted a long, long time. Good deal for $79.99.
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Posted: 6/29/2021 1:41:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Cheap paint jobs still exist. https://maacopaintprices.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Maaco-Paint-Prices.jpg No it doesn't, I went to Maaco a few months ago and their cheapest paint job was $800 |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 2:03:46 AM EDT
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I just called a body shop because the clearcoat is failing on the roof and rear drivers side door on my car.
To sand, paint, and clearcoat those two areas would cost somewhere between $1500 and $3000. To sand, paint, and clearcoat the whole car (I swear to God I'm not making this up) they said it would be absolutely no lower than $10,000. ETA: If I did it myself with $50 worth of rattle cans, it would obviously be a much, much worse job. I'm thinking my rattle can job would be about 5% as good as a professional job. But, it would only cost 0.5% as much. I can't see how the cost/benefit ratio works out on a body shop's paint job. |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 2:07:02 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/29/2021 2:21:52 AM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I just called a body shop because the clearcoat is failing on the roof and rear drivers side door on my car. To sand, paint, and clearcoat those two areas would cost somewhere between $1500 and $3000. To sand, paint, and clearcoat the whole car (I swear to God I'm not making this up) they said it would be absolutely no lower than $10,000. ETA: If I did it myself with $50 worth of rattle cans, it would obviously be a much, much worse job. I'm thinking my rattle can job would be about 5% as good as a professional job. But, it would only cost 0.5% as much. I can't see how the cost/benefit ratio works out on a body shop's paint job. Rattle cans won't do you any good at all, they don't have paint hardeners and will just peel off slowly and look like shit over time. If you really want to do a cheap paint job that will last, use tractor paint |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 2:29:30 AM EDT
[#28]
I went to MAACO for my repair because I knew the name from tv. Terrible idea.
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Posted: 6/29/2021 2:56:55 AM EDT
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My parents had one done back in the 70s I think it was 39.95 plus a bit extra to fix a few spots. As I remember it was a decent job and held up pretty good. The color they chose was very odd. We ended up calling battleship beige.
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Posted: 6/29/2021 3:14:42 AM EDT
[#30]
When I was a kid it was $39.95
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Posted: 6/29/2021 3:20:04 AM EDT
[#31]
 Ever heard of Earl Scheib homes? |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 3:29:33 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I just called a body shop because the clearcoat is failing on the roof and rear drivers side door on my car. To sand, paint, and clearcoat those two areas would cost somewhere between $1500 and $3000. To sand, paint, and clearcoat the whole car (I swear to God I'm not making this up) they said it would be absolutely no lower than $10,000. ETA: If I did it myself with $50 worth of rattle cans, it would obviously be a much, much worse job. I'm thinking my rattle can job would be about 5% as good as a professional job. But, it would only cost 0.5% as much. I can't see how the cost/benefit ratio works out on a body shop's paint job. I had the clear peeling on the hood of my Yukon. It was about $350 in materials for me to redo it. |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 3:39:32 AM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember those commercials. I figured they used Krylon. We didn't have an Earl Sheib but I heard people mention him a lot. 30+ years ago there was another place in town that offered the same kind quick paint and did ads for them. Of course when he started paint was super cheap for anything before the EPA got heavily involved. Some for personal protection of the workers and whatever else they exhausted out. The good old days. |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 3:57:45 AM EDT
[#34]
That ad looks like it’s from 1958. No I don’t remember it, shit, my dad wasn’t born until years after that.
What’s the average age on this forum? I’m in my 30s and routinely see people post about shit I think my grandfather would barely remember. |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 3:59:02 AM EDT
[#35]
I'll paint a car for $99
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Posted: 6/29/2021 4:20:34 AM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: When I was a kid it was $39.95 And any color you want, as long as it is black.
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Posted: 6/29/2021 4:27:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Look at what the value of 1 ounce of gold was at that time compared to now. Also look at minimum wage and average income then compared to now. The value of the paint job has not really increased it is just that the dollars value has decreased. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Those Earl Scheib commercials on TV were memorable. "I'll paint any car for 99.95" spoken in his slow southern drawl. A bit ($10) before my time. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/48515/e893878a1d0085342b5c0465fe298266_png-1995306.JPG To make this comparison easier for people: If that paint job was 90 dollars in 1960 then it cost 2.5oz of gold. In 1990 if you paid 2.5oz of gold it'd be 1.5K. If you paid 2.5oz of gold today then it'd be over 4K. That's just for paint, not for prep. |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 4:31:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Rattle cans won't do you any good at all, they don't have paint hardeners and will just peel off slowly and look like shit over time. If you really want to do a cheap paint job that will last, use tractor paint You can get rattle can with hardener. (It's in a can inside the can - you push a plunger on the bottom to release it and then shake it like crazy.) ETA, I might cut one open the next time I get one. I do kinda want to see exactly how they do it. |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 4:31:46 AM EDT
[#39]
Yep.
Sued MACCO for their version also. |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 7:25:06 AM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That ad looks like it’s from 1958. No I don’t remember it, shit, my dad wasn’t born until years after that. What’s the average age on this forum? I’m in my 30s and routinely see people post about shit I think my grandfather would barely remember. GD is full of the unholy undead. I hear that on a quiet night, if you listen very carefully, you can hear Lincoln give the Gettysburg address... |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 7:30:14 AM EDT
[#41]
Legend has it that some of Jimmy Hoffa’s ashes were placed in every paint gun in the late 70’s.
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Posted: 6/29/2021 7:39:42 AM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Cheap paint jobs still exist. https://maacopaintprices.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Maaco-Paint-Prices.jpg A Maaco job is as good as the guy running the gun. If you shop around locations looking at cars in the "waiting to pickup" portion of the lot, you can find a pretty good spray guy and can request whoever sprayed X car to spray yours. I've done it a couple times over the years, and have always been satisfied with the results. |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 8:18:13 AM EDT
[#43]
Where I live the local VO-Tech school autobody used to paint peoples cars for the cost of the paint. Kids usually did a pretty decent job at it.
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Posted: 6/29/2021 8:19:33 AM EDT
[#44]
You mean the ones where they just paint over everything; lights, trim, grill......
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Posted: 6/29/2021 8:22:36 AM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Where I live the local VO-Tech school autobody used to paint peoples cars for the cost of the paint. Kids usually did a pretty decent job at it. Between the welding, machining, auto body, and cosmetology classes, a young man could get anything he wanted for his car at Votech. |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 8:36:10 AM EDT
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When I wrote estimates, id get at least one all over paint job per week. I could tell whether or not they were wasting my time by telling them our paint jobs start at $3500, and that's with zero repair work, just remove and install trim, handles, mirrors etc
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Posted: 6/29/2021 9:22:48 AM EDT
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I fell for that trap.
They do not remove anything and they we even shitty at their tape work. Looks crappy |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 9:33:14 AM EDT
[#48]
I remember the commercials, but never knew anyone who got one.
I did get a $400 Maaco paint job on a vehicle once. I did all the prepwork, and just dropped it off to be masked and sprayed. Looked good for a daily driver. Still looked good a few years later when I sold it. |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 10:37:15 AM EDT
[#49]
I vaguely remember ads for $400 paint jobs, but not $99. What was gas back then, 30 cents a gallon?
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Posted: 6/29/2021 10:46:33 AM EDT
[#50]
I'm also old enough to remember when a Motel 6 room cost $9.99!
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