2005 4Runner - Paint Suggestions
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RosharonRooster
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Sounds like a great opportunity to do it yourself
The lack of a spray/paint booth might be a situation where this restoration person/painter is doing his final sealer/base/clear in someone else's commercial booth on "third-shift" in an urban area. I would hope so.
CNC Machine shops and some light fabrication shops with decent overhead cranes and multiple building on the same location often will rent out their equipment/shops to another group at night. I see this more now with restaurants as well leasing their commercial kitchens out to catering companies at night and off hours for them.
Where I live--you can rent a couple of commercial/industrial/automotive spray booths for $290/day when they themselves have no scheduled work for them. From a business insurance liability and casualty perspective--no fire permitted paint booth not such a good sign for a "for profit endeavor".
For the original poster--I've counted thirteen auto body shops fold up around where I live and at least ten auto repair shops with a minimum of 6 bays in 2019. Body shop and automotive repair businesses are hard to sell to the next group even with franchises. Nothing to sell except the assets--since few have any contracts or intellectual property. Most have to sell the land tear down the building and redevelop to something else. If someone is offering you a business they want to get out of-- there are likely a few reasons why another successful existing business has not already bought that one already to expand.
My coworker had his 1966 Mustang redone in 2016 for the $7000 price Crashtech mentions today for him to do as a driver--make it look like a factory job--from that time period! That commercial body shop took it in as "fill-in" work and it was well over 7 months with PPG Omni single stage as the top coat. They took the hood and deck lid off and did underneath, did the jams and sills and made this old car flat and straight again with lots of surfacer and tons of sanding--but it was not stripped to bare metal for that price. Thye had a couple of apprentices they wanted to keep busy and learn by doing. I live one state above you and I don't see how anyone here is going to do a respray that you would want or they would want to do for less than $8K.
CNC Machine shops and some light fabrication shops with decent overhead cranes and multiple building on the same location often will rent out their equipment/shops to another group at night. I see this more now with restaurants as well leasing their commercial kitchens out to catering companies at night and off hours for them.
Where I live--you can rent a couple of commercial/industrial/automotive spray booths for $290/day when they themselves have no scheduled work for them. From a business insurance liability and casualty perspective--no fire permitted paint booth not such a good sign for a "for profit endeavor".
For the original poster--I've counted thirteen auto body shops fold up around where I live and at least ten auto repair shops with a minimum of 6 bays in 2019. Body shop and automotive repair businesses are hard to sell to the next group even with franchises. Nothing to sell except the assets--since few have any contracts or intellectual property. Most have to sell the land tear down the building and redevelop to something else. If someone is offering you a business they want to get out of-- there are likely a few reasons why another successful existing business has not already bought that one already to expand.
My coworker had his 1966 Mustang redone in 2016 for the $7000 price Crashtech mentions today for him to do as a driver--make it look like a factory job--from that time period! That commercial body shop took it in as "fill-in" work and it was well over 7 months with PPG Omni single stage as the top coat. They took the hood and deck lid off and did underneath, did the jams and sills and made this old car flat and straight again with lots of surfacer and tons of sanding--but it was not stripped to bare metal for that price. Thye had a couple of apprentices they wanted to keep busy and learn by doing. I live one state above you and I don't see how anyone here is going to do a respray that you would want or they would want to do for less than $8K.
Whitesnake
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Yeah I totally get that. I raised my rates not too long ago. Kind of the same attitude. Im not 18 anymore I’m not working for free anymore. If that means I only get some insurance work here and there then so be it. I also do mechanical repairs and that seems to be good the past couple years. I also have a small dealership and buy insurance vehicles. So I can buy work if need be. I’d rather work on my own stuff than someone else’s for peanuts. And lord knows I have plenty of projects I should finish as well.
Whitesnake
Newbie
Same I don’t have one either. And I’ve also seen garage jobs that were much better than jobs that came out of a booth. It’s all about the person doing the work.
Now you know you can keep working on it until you hit the magic number.
