Plans Change
The original idea was to have a1-Day type of place actually spray the color after we did all the bodywork, but when it got to crunch time the local quickie paint stores couldn't guarantee that they'd turn it around in time. So we called in a favor and had Jerry Sievers at Paint 'n Place spray the paint for us. Paint N Place is a top-quality shop (they paint all of John Force's Funny Car bodies) and Jerry teaches a body and paint class at Riverside Community College, so he's good at explaining how he's making your car look so damn great. It was also not as ridiculously expensive as you'd think. 1-Day quoted us around $650 for a single-stage job, and Jerry charged $1,500 for a basecoat/clearcoat job using quality PPG paint. That price included the paint (stuff's expensive these days), minor work to the door and hood gaps, and some touchup of obvious areas we had missed, which a quickie shop probably won't do.
Because we had to load it on the trailer as quickly as possible, Jerry baked the paint in his heated booth for half an hour. | 
Before | 
After The wheels are 15x8 Center Line Telstars with Mickey Thompson ET Drag Radials in the back and skinnies up front. |