I just painted this 69 Charger... there is over $1100 in top coat materials alone, not to mention about 300 hundred hours in bodywork and more hundreds $$ in filler, primers, sanpaper etc..
part of the expense is the huge jump in materials cost over the last few years..
It was like $45 for a bottle of compound to buff the paint..

Here is a photo a few minutes after I painted it.

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Last edited by sthemi; 11/16/13 11:36 PM.