Quote Originally Posted by roadster32 View Post
Wow you guys seem to pay a lot more than we do for primers & paints, for example i pay £12 for a litre of epoxy primer which is about $15, straight colour is around £25 ($33) per litre
Yep Steve, I just picked up a quart of DP90LF primer today so Dan can shoot some more parts this weekend, and the primer was $ 49.00 and the hardener was $ 49.00. (It would have been $28 for the hardener but they were out of the pint size so I had to get a quart.) We figure he will have about 6 quarts total of DP90 spraying the cab and bed, so that is about $ 600 in primer alone. Then we have to spray high build primer, and finally color. Even doing a paint job yourself, using good stuff, the tab is very high. Makes a person understand how Jay (Hotrodpaint) and others need to get $ 10 K or more to make any money painting one professionally.

The guys like Steve in California really have it tough as they are banned by law from buying and using products some of us in other States use. I watched a show where Jay Leno was having a Deusenberg (sp?) restored and the shop owner said he had to use modern paints that are ok to use in California. He said if they come in and find a trace of other stuff in his filters it is a $ 10K fine. Won't be too long those restrictions will migrate across the country...........everything starts in California and eventually happens everywhere else.

Don