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In a message dated 11/8/13 14 02 52, michaelsavga@gmail.com writes:<BR>
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Even at 25.00 an hour, that's a $50,000.00 paint job.<BR>
1) my mechanic just did a rot. Restoration of an Amelia Island winning SWB 4 Cam 275 Ferrari last year and that paint job was $35,000.<BR>
He charges much more per hour as well....<BR>
So....cough...cough....BS....<BR>
It looks great ( needs bumpers) and I hope he gets every penny.<BR>
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>>>Back in the 1980s I remember reading an article, I think in Car & Driver, called "The $125,000 Paint Job". It profiled Junior's House of Color, a stupid expensive body shop in So-Cal that prided itself on being stupidly expensive. Yes, they did great work, but they charged an outrageous amount for it. It became a badge of honor to pay too much for a great paint job. Nothing left their shop for under $100K, but for a brief time, the value of the car would be raised by a like amount.<BR>
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A very brief time!<BR>
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When POCA was relatively young, they put on a big-shot concours called the Newporter Invitational, and people would spend upwards of $100K to get a Junior paint job on their Pantera in the hopes of winning a $35 trophy. So *some* Panteras got that treatment. One of them is owned by our own Chris Difani, who got a screaming deal on the car a few years back...long after that brief time had passed!<BR>
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