Earl Scheib

[rekit]

Someone mentioned the car paint place on here, brought back some memories..

Ahh, Earl Scheib.......Early 70's they painted my freinds van and they left it out overnight and it rained. It looked dimpled. My brother had his 65 Mustang painted and they painted over some mud on the trunk lid. Years later as an adult that knew what to expect, I took an 85 Celica to Maico. There was some rust in the hatch I had fixed, removed the glass. Also removed everthing I could like the lights (just left one screw in to drive it there) and some trim. Wet sanded the body. Came out great, Viper Red. They offered me a job lol.

 

[hrv]

Ill paint any car for 29.95....Had a friend of mine that striped all the chrome off and wet sanded the car then took it to them for a 29.95 paint job and it turned out great...He did all the prep work ahead of time..

 

[JavierH19]

Painted over mud lol. I'm guessing they were upset someone thought they were going to do that much work for that little money of a paint job. Still though, funny.

 

[Zee09]

In the 80s their Wilmington DE. Location was actually a real barn that still had hay in it...

 

[PontiacHO]

Yes. If the owner did the pre-paint prep and helped with masking off it was a good deal. Otherwise I’ve seen door handles and windshield trim painted…

 

[walterjay]

Earl Scheib was the biggest disaster to ever hit the refinishing market. I don't know how they stayed in business as long as they did.

 

[hrv]

Yes. If the owner did the pre-paint prep and helped with masking off it was a good deal. Otherwise I’ve seen door handles and windshield trim painted…

YUP leave your windows down and they will spray your interior too .

 

[Zee09]

Earl Scheib was the biggest disaster to ever hit the refinishing market. I don't know how they stayed in business as long as they did.

Cheapness rules...
I was sent there by my Datsun dealer...I took one look around and split...lol

 

[ArthurArgentum]

$39.95

 

[c502cid]

When my 63 Split Window was just a box of parts, it couldn't be insured as a classic car because it wasn't painted. Earl Scheib to the rescue. $100 bucks. Then they offered it to me for free if they could use the car in their advertising. I said yes but they couldn't use my name lol.

 

[Owen Lucas]

I think you are better off getting a paint job at your vocational technical school by junior or senior year students with all of the stories I've heard from Maaco / Flake-o or Earl Scheib.

 

[walterjay]

I would have been ashamed to work for Earl Scheib.

 

[dishdude]

Years ago I used to see a Thunderbird driving around with the paint coming off in sheets. The owner got a bunch of those mailbox letters from Home Depot and on the truck lid it said "Earl Scheib painted this car".

 

[JHZR2]

I think you are better off getting a paint job at your vocational technical school by junior or senior year students with all of the stories I've heard from Maaco / Flake-o or Earl Scheib.

I’d love to do that on one of my cars, issue is, how do I find a school willing to take the car?

 

[Fitter30]

Old whore new dress
What's not to like at 50' even better at100'

 

[Fla]

I think you are better off getting a paint job at your vocational technical school by junior or senior year students with all of the stories I've heard from Maaco / Flake-o or Earl Scheib.

Been there done that but it took them about 6 months do it and honestly the paintwork wasn't any better than Maico or E.S.'s. But the school did do some prep work and they did mask off the trim and stuff. The secret to an E.S. or a Maico paint job was to throughly clean the outside of the car and removed all of the trim and to sand the car yourself and do all of the prep work yourself before taking it to them. They would mask off the windows before painting a car but that was all. All exposed trim and rubber parts got painted. The paint and body shop that I worked in in the very early 70s charged a MINIMUM of $300 to paint a car (we did the proper prep work) but at the time, you could get an E.S. or Maico paint for (IIRC) as little as $19.95. A lot of people really couldn't afford $300+ at the time so Maico and E.S. were good alternatives.

 

[Owen Lucas]

I’d love to do that on one of my cars, issue is, how do I find a school willing to take the car?

I've never done it but I'd start by calling around local vocational technical high schools. Who knows, maybe even the parts guys at AutoZone etc. might have some connections.

 

[PontiacHO]

There was also a cheap paint joint in Charlotte called Fact-O-Bake. They painted my buddy’s 1969 Cutlass three times before getting it right. Not sure if it is the same company but there are still paint shops by that name in the south…

 

[PimTac]

No ups. No extras.

 

[Egg_Head]

Earl Scheib - Wikipedia

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