Back in the 80’s I saw a brand new Yugo at a new car show. The factory paint was over top a leaf lying on the hood.
Earl Scheib
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Back in the '70's if you prepped it right Earls did a decent paint job for cheap. Being that the guys there sprayed a lot of cars they could lay on a decent top coat. It was all about the prep.
Back in high school my buddy had a 58 Oldsmobile painted fire engine red. Looked good except when tried to open passenger doors and trunk he realized they were painted shut!
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Los Angeles wasn’t too built up yet in ‘37. I remember those days the waiting area was cramped
I understood they could do go work if you did the preparation first. But I have no first hand experience.
There used to be a guy here who did rebuilt titles, specialized for a while in Volvos, Mercedes and a dabbled with land rovers. Frankly, he did fine work, had repeat customers and I almost bought an s60 off of him. He’d spend as much time answering questions as I chose to hang around. He hired a friend of mine to run and install transmission lines in an X5 he was stumbling around with, so a couple of us knew him.
His paint “booth” had entirely inadequate ventilation - 3 box fans taped in place at the end of the pole barn under a part-opened roll up door. I’m hoping he wore good PPE. He was teaching his son to paint and the son’s work was quite good. I mentioned to my friend that the fumes, even when I was there, were really bad. He said, “then don’t go there at night, as you won’t be able to smell the paint through the weed. He goes back there, lights up, and goes to work.” I’ll say this, his paint work was fabulous and his rebuilds were carefully selected and to my eye were done with pride in his work. I’m not sure if he’s still around.
His paint “booth” had entirely inadequate ventilation - 3 box fans taped in place at the end of the pole barn under a part-opened roll up door. I’m hoping he wore good PPE. He was teaching his son to paint and the son’s work was quite good. I mentioned to my friend that the fumes, even when I was there, were really bad. He said, “then don’t go there at night, as you won’t be able to smell the paint through the weed. He goes back there, lights up, and goes to work.” I’ll say this, his paint work was fabulous and his rebuilds were carefully selected and to my eye were done with pride in his work. I’m not sure if he’s still around.
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