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01-04-2023, 07:10 AM
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #804
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Ever wonder what is all in involved in a $50,000 Paint Job on a Cobra?
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01-04-2023, 10:31 AM
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For some reason I'm sincerely doubting that this car will ever see much, if any, road use. It'll be a gorgeous trailer/garage queen, and that's fine. It's his car and if that's how he derives enjoyment from it, good for him.
Personally, I prefer to get my jaw rictus from smiling like a fool when I'm tooling down the highway. 40MPH or 110+MPH, the smile is the same. 
I quit feeling real badly about getting a stone chip. (still feel a little badly) but realize it bound to happen to a car that is driven.
Last edited by KarlzEE Bebout; 01-04-2023 at 10:40 AM..
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01-04-2023, 01:17 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Manchester,
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Cobra Make, Engine: AK1085 (302 Street), HTM111 (427 Comp), CSX2375R (289 Comp) and COB5999 (427 S/C)
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Well now... Not so fast!
If I can move my 993, it will be sliding into my garage. 
100% will see driving time!
Last edited by 1985 CCX; 01-04-2023 at 02:45 PM..
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01-04-2023, 02:06 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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Hmmmm, and all this time I thought they just charged you $50k but gave you the ol' run-of-the-mill $20k paint job.  |
01-04-2023, 07:12 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: 70 Shelby convertible, ERA-289 FIA, 65 Sunbeam Tiger, mystery Ford powered 2dr convertible
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I'm not seeing the strip, prep, repaint, refinish, and R&I of all components adding up to $50,000.
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01-04-2023, 07:21 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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The kid kind of looked like a descendant of Earl Scheib to me. |
01-04-2023, 08:50 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Everett-Morrison LS1
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$29.95 any car any color!!!!!!!!!
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01-06-2023, 12:11 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: 1989 KCC from South Africa Right Hand Drive
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No Cobra Paint job is worth that . It looks nice and all..
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01-06-2023, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Jerry Clayton
$29.95 any car any color!!!!!!!!!
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Except beige. Beige no bueno. |
01-06-2023, 01:30 PM
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The narration sounds like if the characters
from Peaky Blinders did car paint instead
of drinking, smoking and stealing stuff.
Not seeing $50K painting that.
A McLaren or Ferrari all that and probably more.
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01-06-2023, 04:18 PM
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Polishing my Kirkham was much much much cheaper. Who needs stinking paint.
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01-06-2023, 05:06 PM
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Bill S., you know what a 50k paint job would be like, I take your comments over the guy in the Video who, if I walked into his shop, I would more likely turn around and out the door I'd go. A little too much foolishness going on. The start of the video: "Frying the tires on a E-Type", that's just bad form, better yet that's just stupid. Don't get me started on the buffer smoking a Cigar while buffing a car, good lord.
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01-06-2023, 08:11 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: 70 Shelby convertible, ERA-289 FIA, 65 Sunbeam Tiger, mystery Ford powered 2dr convertible
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As an example, I personally know of a 34 Rolls Royce Phantom II, which was disassembled, stripped of its aging 60's era lacquer repaint, prepped, repainted, and reassembled, and the total was less than $50,000....And this was in the winter of 2021 and spring/summer of 2022.
Bill S.
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01-07-2023, 05:50 AM
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA Street Roadster #782 with 459 cu in FE KC engine, toploader, 3.31
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Good detail work but I’m not seeing $50,000 there either.
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01-09-2023, 11:09 AM
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I'm not qualified to judge the paint. But I do like how it came out. I kept screaming inside "Stop touching it"!
He did say it was 350 hours (not man hours). That may or may not be billable hours. But with good products I couldn't venture to say a total. I don't know if $120-$140 per hour would be unheard of.
Now was that 50K in USD or BPS?
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01-09-2023, 11:50 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by masteranubis
i'm not qualified to judge the paint. But i do like how it came out. I kept screaming inside "stop touching it"!
He did say it was 350 hours (not man hours). That may or may not be billable hours. But with good products i couldn't venture to say a total. I don't know if $120-$140 per hour would be unheard of.
Now was that 50k in usd or bps?
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01-09-2023, 05:43 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: 70 Shelby convertible, ERA-289 FIA, 65 Sunbeam Tiger, mystery Ford powered 2dr convertible
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MasterAnubis
I'm not qualified to judge the paint. But I do like how it came out. I kept screaming inside "Stop touching it"!
He did say it was 350 hours (not man hours). That may or may not be billable hours. But with good products I couldn't venture to say a total. I don't know if $120-$140 per hour would be unheard of.
Now was that 50K in USD or BPS?
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350 hours on a Cobra.....let's say a full 8 hour day, if you could get a bodyman or a painter to actually work a solid 8 hour day, that would be 43 days of working on the car, 8 solid hours a day for that time period. Again, sorry, I'm not seeing it here.
Not even billable hours, as I cannot come up with more than 106 hours, which would be complete R&I of the bolt on parts, drivetrain, and interior, strip, prep, and repaint...Even if billed at an unheard of $200 an hour, I'm still coming in at $21,200.....I know high end restoration shops that can't get $200/hr, so the shop in question, sorry, no.
Bill S.
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01-11-2023, 08:23 AM
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My answer to the original question and title of the thread; no.
I feel it's ludicrous that a painter charge that amount, and have the same opinion that someone would agree to pay that amount. But apparently those two people found one another and are both satisfied.
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01-13-2023, 04:23 PM
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On the first cruise with that $50K shine
you'll get a stoplight review from this guy.
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