[stubes]

well, i am biting the bullit and sending the GTA out for media blasting tommorrrow. off for the holiday and my brother in law is going to flatbed it for me.
still on the fence about whether to sell or not. i have a feeling once i get it back in Epoxy primer i'll be wanting to keep her. its a very solid highly optioned car. Just lost ambition to do big projects these days, but thinking a nice clean shell will make it look 100 times better and more desirable.

 

[sparky65]

Just wondering how much it costs to have the car blasted and primed. the local guy i am bring my doors to tomorow told me 3k for the whole car. A bit higer then others i called but does a lot of work on cars, recomended by the locals and seems to know his stuff.

 

[stubes]

last time i had just a fastback shell done and sprayed in epoxy primer was around $700 with tax included.

 

[olddustyrelics]

$3,000 sounds pretty high to me unless they are taking a lot of the car apart for you! I paid $700 for the body media blasted on a rotiserrie, $45 each for fenders and doors and then $100 for priming, I bought materials. That was no good guy discount either.

 

[Bronx1645]

I was just wondering do you still happen to have the guy who stripped your car info. I live in new york and i contemplated doing it myself but i have no space and i would appreciate the lead.thanks

 

[WHICKERSON2003]

650.00 IN K.C.

 

[Guest]

Just had a '67 convertible done, only bolt on part was the passenger side door. Exterior, interior, trunk were stripped, no priming. $750

 

[smithers]

Keep her, Russ, go into debt like me . Sounds reasonable on the SB pricing. Let me know when she comes back I'd like to check her out. Who gets the priority now, the vert or the Mach?

PS Let me know if you have any leads on 2 doors, mine are toast.

 

[66DavesGT]

I'm having three blasted this summer. To media the body and sandblast the underbody will cost me $450 per car.

 

[stubes]

kelly,
its not a matter of debt, too many cars, no place to put them, and frankly at least for the past 2-3 months i am sick of working on them.
mach gets first priority-thats why i am thinking of selling the vert.

no good on 65-66 doors. was any of the metal on your car any good???

 

[sparky65]

Wow that is way higher then everyone else. I actually whent to his shop today. He has two cars in there now and really seems to know his stuff. He will do everything except the backside of the hood and trunk lid. He says those are the only places that blasting will cause warpage. He says they blast a 35 psi doing 5 passes. It takes them a long time this way but i have seen the final product and it is very good. My old boss had his car done by someone for $800 and i talked to his body man who told me that there wasn't a straight piece left on the car. No one else around here would touch the large panels. Had one quote for 400 just for door jambs and frame piecs . Another one was 1500 for everything but hood trunk lid roof and 1/4's.
The paint is a 2part epoxy DP 402 that he says cost $200. I am trying to check that, or i can bring him my paint.
I dont want to over pay but i dont want a disaster either. :crazy:

 

[sparky65]

The place is Blast-Master not to far from NY.

Blast-Master

 

[69RestoRod]

For 3 grand you could buy all the equipment to media blast it yourself. Using soda, sand or what ever media you want.
We have soda/sand blasters at work the plug into pressure washers, work great and retail for around a grand. But that's just to give you an idea of what heavy duty equipment runs. The hardest thing to get is the space to make such a mess in with a heavy media.

 

[sparky65]

The hardest thing to get is the space to make such a mess in with a heavy media.

and the time to do it. I am sure thats were all the cost is.