{"id":2489,"date":"2020-09-08T09:52:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T17:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2020-09-08T09:52:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T17:52:28","slug":"paint-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2020\/09\/08\/paint-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Paint Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a walkaround of the Scout, pointing out most of the visible scars, stains, scrapes and scratches.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/dk-GKbWHIAY\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>One of the things mentioned in the video is purchasing a set of chrome trim pieces to install, instead of plug-welding and filling all 20 of the holes along the side of the body. Super Scout Specialists sells <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superscoutspecialists.com\/reproduction-chrome-moulding-trim-set\">a set of trim that they claim is close to the original style<\/a>, for $170. If I estimate the time I think it&#8217;ll take to plug and fill each of these holes (and there are several I wouldn&#8217;t be able to do unless I pulled the front fender off) that price looks more and more reasonable by the minute. Even if I spent $500 on a good set of used chrome, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=average+body+shop+hourly+rate&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">that math still holds up<\/a> because it&#8217;s going to take a lot more than 10 hours per side to clean things up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a walkaround of the Scout, pointing out most of the visible scars, stains, scrapes and scratches. One of the things mentioned in the video is purchasing a set of chrome trim pieces to install, instead of plug-welding and filling all 20 of the holes along the side of the body. Super Scout Specialists sells [&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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paint"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-E9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","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=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions\/2492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}