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Old 12-31-2003, 01:24 AM
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so i was talking to my girlfriend's friend's uncle the other night and he does paint and body work. i asked him how much to repaint two front fenders and a hood with ghost flames wraped around. well he gave me an estimate of $650 and he has a pretty good reputation of doing some top notch work. but does that seem fair..$650? thanks
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Originally Posted by renegade4e
so i was talking to my girlfriend's friend's uncle the other night and he does paint and body work. i asked him how much to repaint two front fenders and a hood with ghost flames wraped around. well he gave me an estimate of $650 and he has a pretty good reputation of doing some top notch work. but does that seem fair..$650? thanks
Heck yeah! Especially if he does top notch work. A local guy in my area is an EXCELLENT painter and specializes in air brushing. He wants to do ghost flames on my truck from the front, across the hood and back to about the middle of the doors for around $1200.
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Sounds like a good price, I know several painters around here, and one charges 1k + for simple flames in 1 color. One shop did a ex g/f's tahoe with 'ghost flames' for 500.... it was silver-ish paint ontop of charcoal, and they looked like a sack full of hammered ******** ontop of that.
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I was quoted $1500 for my truck, but that was running all the way to the down the ext cab, so I guess that is a very fair price for what you want to do.
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Dude...hook me up too!
That's a DAMN good deal...over here you're looking at AT LEAST $1500...easily
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Very good deal.....jump on that
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I was qouted $1200 to do flames on both fenders and doors, no hood. But, the guy was just starting his own shop. I think $650 is F'in great.
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woah, guess it's good to have friends in low places. i'll go ahead and get it done, what color ghost flames should i get? my truck's black and i want to stick to the black/silver theme....how should i do this?
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Originally Posted by renegade4e
woah, guess it's good to have friends in low places. i'll go ahead and get it done, what color ghost flames should i get? my truck's black and i want to stick to the black/silver theme....how should i do this?
Not being a jerk but ask the guy that will be doing painting for you. He'll know how to paint what you're looking for.
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Sounds like a good price, just let him you know you want a quality job done. I have seen a lot of ghost flames that look like ***. If they dont turn out good always get them fixed, even if they eat the cost of materials or labor. After all they gave you the $500 price for a quality job and if you dont receive it its there problem not yours. I think the silver flames would look good laid over the black.


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