Maaco Body Shops Options

[Alfieg23]

Who has used a Maaco Body Shop to paint their 914 and how pleased were you with the result?

[mepstein]

We have a Macco in our industrial park and have sent a couple cars to them for paint. We do the bodywork and prep - remove everything, mask for overspray. We then usually buff the paint afterword. For $1200, we get an almost half decent paint job. This is good for track cars, low cost resale cars and daily driver cars. The shop is pretty professional. One of our body guys used to work there. He just worked to the quality that was expected. Not bad but certainaly not great. I don't think the paint will fall off the car. It's real paint, just pretty cheap.
I know one of the painters there and I had him do my motorcycle frame, tanks and side panels. He is a top notch painter and makes good money at maaco because he's fast and doesn't make mistakes. He will probably paint my 914 in his hand made spray booth (can't do side jobs at work), When he did my bike, he purchased top quality paint, about $500 -wholesale, for single stage black paint on the frame and 2 stage on the tanks and side panels. Maybe a quart of paint and a pint of clear. Way more expensive than what he uses at work.
So it really depends what you have for a budget and what are your expectations. Our 911 paint jobs cost us about $6k (from a painter that we send a lot of business) and that's after we do all the bodywork and paint the underside, interior, trunks and engine bay in single stage.