Thread: Two tone paint on a Model A roadster

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My point of all the rambling is that there is no "set amount" for paint services. That is why I told you a paint job can vary fro $1K to $15K. If the job can vary that much, how can a person tell you how much more for a 2-tone?

There are so many things to consider, that the obvious answer to your question is......."It all depends"! You will just have to get some estimates from people who can do the job.

I can tell you that skim coating is a good idea, since all of the new bodies will have some imperfections. I have been in the custom paint biz for 35 years, and I can tell you with certainty, the only question is "how many?". What they do not show you in those TV programs is the same guy that spead that glaze all over the car spent the next two days block sanding it flat.....and that's a fact!!! Expect it to affect the price.

Originally Posted by HOTRODPAINT

My point of all the rambling is that there is no "set amount" for paint services.
I can tell you that skim coating is a good idea, since all of the new bodies will have some imperfections. I have been in the custom paint biz for 35 years, and I can tell you with certainty, the only question is "how many?". What they do not show you in those TV programs is the same guy that spead that glaze all over the car spent the next two days block sanding it flat.....and that's a fact!!! Expect it to affect the price.

HOTROD PAINT & StylingZ,
I will be eventually posting the body prep pictures of my Brookville bodied 30-31. Be rest assured, there are LOTS of fairly significant imperfections - the worst that I have found so far is that the tops of the rear quarters, just adjacent to the raised detail next to the trunk are incorrectly formed - being very low. The door skins are low on both the hinge and latch side and the trunk lid looks like it was formed with a ball pein hammer, including the lap over the inner panel. Then to top it off, the primer is a very soft red oxide acrylic and needs to be entirely rmoved (per email from Brookville ). And I would guess they put it on to hide their screwups.

This all means that the entire body as supplied by Brookville needs at least a skim coat of filler.

StylingZ,
This is just more of my trials on this car - wish I could be more upbeat, but this is the way it is - hope yours is better.

Added 9/15 - I have the Brookville raised rear deck former ($150 mistake to buy, but...) and they leaded it into place. That's fine, but to hide their assembly errors, they spot puttied the grooves left from grinding !!!!
Also, the top of the quarters are worse than suspected tho the sides are surprisingly straight

As I read your post you seem to be asking how much would the price difference be if you want to do a 2-tone paint scheme... Since most of the cost of a good paintjob is in the prep work that should be the same if you paint it a single color or two-tone, their will be some additional labor to mask and base the second color and the clearing process should be about the same. I think it would be reasonable to expect the two tone to cost somewhere between 10-20% more than a single color. As has been said before, cost will depend greatly on who is painting it.

Here is something you might want to consider... Many paint shops prefer to spray "their" brand of paint and will charge more if you insist on a certain brand. In some cases like some of the House of Color paints you have no option but to spray their color as they are impossible to mix, but since you are looking at factory colors the paint formulas are readily available. In my shop if you insist on PPG I am going to have to charge more since that is not a brand I spry often and therefor don't keep their products in stock or buy them in bulk.

Dave Brisco

While you are planning, try to look up the stock paint scheme that was on the Model A Cabriolet. It lools like a lot of work to mask out the various outlines but the final effect is outstanding. Perhaps that is more demanding than the two tone scheme you outline but it might be worth considering.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder