What is cost to repaint the entire truck?

[00Bolt]

this isnt anything im gonna be doing anytime in the near future, but ONE day... id love to paint the truck yellow... iv always had a thing for yellow cars and well, iv never seen a yellow L... so I thought it would be cool....

for a good paint job, what would it cost... like $2k ?

[L8 APEX]

Yellow is an expensive paint it has a lot of cadmuim in it. A color change is also expensive depending on how much you want trimmed in. There is the door jams, pulling the bed to get the back of the cab, inside the engine bay etc. There are some small part time shops/painters that may do it for $2-3K. The pro's like Ted Prohaska or House of Color would be closer to $5-6K. Yellow is about a thousand more than a regular color.

[00Bolt]

wow, nevermind... lol

id rather stay black and go kenne bell or something.... but i do think it would be sweet to have a yellow L

[WA 2 FST]

I concur with Terry. Run from a $2k paint job, especially since you'd be changing colors. That will be a crappy job overall.

[TXBLU]

If you really want a killer paint job, you should talk to Gary DeFratus over off of Belt Line, South of 183 in Irving. He ain't cheap, but he is good. His shop is a factory approved Viper Repair Center. A friend of mine backed his '94 R/T-10 into a guard rail and DeFratus repaired it. It looks and drives like new now. It has been about 5 years since the accident asnd there are absolutely no problems with any of the work.

If you really want to make a radical color change, like going to yellow, do yourself a huge favor and take your truck ONLY to a high end paint and body specialist.

It wil actually cost you less in the long run.http://www.talonclub.com/forum/images/smilies/thumbsup.gif

[00Bolt]

does anyone have a picture or a link to a yellow L??? there has to be 1 out there somewhere

[Nuhklz]

does anyone have a picture or a link to a yellow L??? there has to be 1 out there somewhere Check Ronald's gallery (my2002lightning). He did a paintshop view of his lightning in several colors and I think one of them was yellow.

[blueoval01]

Check Ronald's gallery (my2002lightning). He did a paintshop view of his lightning in several colors and I think one of them was yellow. I was just about to say the same thing. And THAT ain't no :ron:.
:rll:

http://www.svtgalleries.net/gallery/data/500/317YellowL-med.jpg

[00Bolt]

tru, that looks tight!!!

[Nuhklz]

I was just about to say the same thing. And THAT ain't no :ron:.
:rll:


http://www.talonclub.com/forum/images/smilies/rofl2.gif I hope Webster's is taking notice of http://www.talonclub.com/forum/images/smilies/ronald.gif

[my2002lightning]

http://www.talonclub.com/forum/images/smilies/rofl2.gif I hope Webster's is taking notice of http://www.talonclub.com/forum/images/smilies/ronald.gif
I need to find time to become more proficient w/Photoshop 7+ - these renditions aren't that great.

I've been too busy during the day "shuckin' and jivin' " with recruiters and the like.

I'll always love Sonic-Blue w/the '02 rims. :bows


http://www.svtgalleries.net/gallery/data/500/317SonicBlue1.jpg

[Ivanhoe_Farms]

We have restored a number of Shelby Mustangs, and we took the cars to bare metal. We figured it would run between $6K and $10K for a paint job depending on how straight the panels were.

For a "show quality" paint job, each panel would have to be block sanded twice, and it took 2-4 hours per panel to do the job.

then there is the color sanding after the clear coat is applied:tu:

[Shiner1]

I agree with Ivan. If you want a quality paint job with the sanding and prep it takes to make that paint look good then you are going to pay for it. My son wanted his truck painted and he took it to Maaco. The paint is not bad, but you can tell the sanding was kept to a minimum and there was lots of overspray. (no masking done) They did not primer the new front bumper or roll pan and we have had to take it back for rust coming through the paint. You get what you pay for.

[REXRENEGADE]

YELLOW! You will look like a rolling Twinkie! :d
Heaven forbid I ever see an Orange L.:vomit:

[00Bolt]

i have seen an orange L before, its sweet... but i like that, guess im different


http://www.svtgalleries.net/gallery/data/500/5782873-4230-64849.jpg

[jcblack]

I have seen a real yellow L that Ford supposedly did for a demo.

[L8 APEX]

They made a lot of yellow BOSS F150's. JD has a pic

[skalywags]

I have seen a real yellow L that Ford supposedly did for a demo.
what, for Ryder or the Yellow taxi Co.?

[Alpine]

http://f150online.com/galleries/images/177-181-1144.jpg

[jcblack]

Told ya there was a yellow one out there.