{"id":2244,"date":"2019-11-11T11:54:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T19:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2020-09-08T09:57:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T17:57:19","slug":"how-much-does-it-cost-to-paint-a-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2019\/11\/11\/how-much-does-it-cost-to-paint-a-car\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Does it Cost to Paint a Car?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hemmings.com\/blog\/article\/time-is-money\/\">Hemmings breaks down how much a reasonable paint and bodywork job might cost<\/a> on a classic car.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bottom line is high-quality paint jobs and the supporting bodywork can be had for much less than the cost of a concours-level restoration, but time is the factor in all projects&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At a labor rate of, say, $90 an hour, that&#8217;s $36,000 before the first drop of paint is applied&#8230;Total labor hours in the 400- to 500-hours range is reasonable for a non-concours job, which puts our friend Jeff&#8217;s estimate for his Mach 1 right in the ballpark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My paint isn&#8217;t flaking off and the metal underneath is still in good shape. I guess I&#8217;m sticking with purple for the time being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hemmings breaks down how much a reasonable paint and bodywork job might cost on a classic car. The bottom line is high-quality paint jobs and the supporting bodywork can be had for much less than the cost of a concours-level restoration, but time is the factor in all projects&#8230; At a labor rate of, say, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-plans","category-paint"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-Ac","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}