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[mepstein]

Interesting thread on pelican by a long time poster who knows a lot about painting cars and used to own a successful paint shop.

https://forums.pelicanparts.com/paint-bodyw...cost-paint.html

[Unobtanium-inc]

I've painted several Porsche over the years and painting well is really hard. I asked the guy who painted my 356 about this and he said, "it's the dozen".

He said there are about a dozen things you have to get right to get a good paint job and your average guy who knows tools can count on getting about 8 right on any given paint job. This corresponded with what I was getting, a different problem every time, sometimes this, sometimes that, but never a perfect paint job. He said you really need to have painted about 100 cars in a few year period to get to the 12, where the paint gun becomes part of your arm.
This was my last paint job.