foqus
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Hello all,
My Oxford White Mustang will be arriving in a few days. I wanted something unusual, something that pays homage to great novelty cars of the past. I thought of every movie or TV car that I could think of...Speed Racer, Racer X, Dukes of Hazard, A-Team van, Starsky and Hutch, Herbie the Love bug (even though I have a Herbie 1963 Pearl White with decals in my garage already). Well, nothing will fit the body style of the Mustang, so I decided on white and to just put red and blue racing stripes on it...a subtle patriotic theme.
From my limited perusal of sites such as this, I was expecting the stripes to cost about $1,500 - $1,800 or so. Imagine my surprise when I recieved an email quote from what appears to be a fantastic St Louis shop: $15,000. Fifteen thousand dollars. Of course I thought it was a typo, but nope. They have to do a lot of work, like take off the splitter, and they would clear over the stripes.
They said that if I stay on the hood, roof and trunk alone, and don't bring the stripes to the ground, and kill the rocker stripes on both sides, then the cost would be about $6,500.
Am I just way totally off base thinking that I could get stripes painted on for a couple of thousand dollars?
marco
My Oxford White Mustang will be arriving in a few days. I wanted something unusual, something that pays homage to great novelty cars of the past. I thought of every movie or TV car that I could think of...Speed Racer, Racer X, Dukes of Hazard, A-Team van, Starsky and Hutch, Herbie the Love bug (even though I have a Herbie 1963 Pearl White with decals in my garage already). Well, nothing will fit the body style of the Mustang, so I decided on white and to just put red and blue racing stripes on it...a subtle patriotic theme.
From my limited perusal of sites such as this, I was expecting the stripes to cost about $1,500 - $1,800 or so. Imagine my surprise when I recieved an email quote from what appears to be a fantastic St Louis shop: $15,000. Fifteen thousand dollars. Of course I thought it was a typo, but nope. They have to do a lot of work, like take off the splitter, and they would clear over the stripes.
They said that if I stay on the hood, roof and trunk alone, and don't bring the stripes to the ground, and kill the rocker stripes on both sides, then the cost would be about $6,500.
Am I just way totally off base thinking that I could get stripes painted on for a couple of thousand dollars?
marco
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