Re: [AMC-List] MAACO or equivelent paint jobs.

[markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Sounds like they did a miserable mask job and no ventilation in the spray booth to allow that much overspray to settle on everything.
  If the Mustang I saw had been stripped down I expect it would have suffered the same fate!
   
Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- John Elle <johnelle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> In my life I have done a number of cars and painting them has ranged
> from spray bombs to chain paint stores (MAACO and equivalent) a decent
> body shop and DIY. Each selection was made based on my budget, need and
> objective as to the use of the car. First of all if you want a decent
> paint job, figure out how to do it yourself or expect the equivalent of
> the $30,000 Legendary paint job.  You can get a passably decent paint
> job using spray bombs. If all you want is an ok driver that looks good
> when you drive it to church Rust O Leum will work quite well and I have
> seen a really sharp Gremlin that was done with duplicolor spray cans,
> but that does come under the do it yourself category. 
> As far as MAACO goes my experience sort of parallels Tom and maybe
> others. In my case there was a MAACO shop that was getting a lot of good
> press in the local cruising news. I visited it. I saw a Jag sedan, a
> Corvette, a couple of other collectables and a Chevelle  that was having
> quarter panel work done on it. So as I was building driver that I could
> show and the top of the line MAACO made sense I dropped of my Spirit,
> stripped of all chrome, lights, bumpers, builder wheels and tires new
> upholstery, new rugs, detailed engine compartment and some body
> detailing. When I went to pick it up I was sorry I ever had it there. 
> Can we say OVERSPRAY?
> EVERYWHERE!!!!
> Under the hood, on the engine, under the chassis, on the black bumper
> shocks still bolted to the car, on the new rugs through the holes in the
> rear fascia where the tail lights were no longer. They did not bother to
> plug the holes, they did carefully mask part of the body that I had
> replaced with a black piece cause the white one was broken but they did
> not bother to put paper over the holes going into the hatch through the
> tail lights or the shock mounts for the bumpers carefully painted black.
> 
> I do not know how they got as much white paint ALL over the engine
> compartment and engine as they did. But they did not bother removing the
> body parts that were in the hatch that had to be painted too despite
> instructions that left on what to paint and not to paint. Not only that
> but the windshield wiper shafts and mountings were painted. The list
> goes on. It took me over a year to clean up and repaint due to over
> spray. Not to mention that when they finally did the body parts that
> they left in the hatch they did a lousy job of matching the selected
> paint color. 
> When the aggravation was finally said and done and the year plus time
> was spent cleaning up the over spray the end result was not all that bad
> and as long as the car was garaged and waxed regularly it looked good.
> It was and still is driven daily and has placed well in local, regional
> and national shows. However the last year it has had to sit out side and
> after one years time the paint is oxidizing badly. Yes, you can get a
> maybe o.k. paint job for about $2000.00 from MAACO or equivalent, or
> maybe you might be very upset about what you got for $2000.00. I was! I
> can do a better job than what I got from MAACO using single stage
> Acrylic Enamel for about 25% of what it cost me to have MAACO frustrate
> me so that is what I will do from now on. 'Sides that paint is orders of
> magnitude better than the top of the line paint from MAACO. The cheap
> paint from MAACO will oxides out in about 3 months around here. Not even
> worth the effort to use it. 
> For what it is worth, that is my experience. 
> John
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