Any recs for a paint shop in/near Sac? Need complete job

[EK_Oakland]

Looking for a shop that will do a complete paint job in/near Sac (I live in Tahoe).  Trying to avoid Bay Area prices where I was quoted $13K.  Thanks!

[dang]

What exactly are you planning on paying for?  Are you doing any of the work, tear down, assembly, etc., or do you want the shop to do most of the work?  Engine compartment, trunk, door jams I assume?  Just a shell?  The price can vary quite a bit.

[EK_Oakland]

At this point I just want to find a reputable shop and see some of their work to find a middle ground. I am not looking for re-sale value, but I was hoping for a windows out/trim removed type of a job and I'm not doing ANY work myself. I wouldnt have ANY idea what I was doing.  I don't see the value of painting inside the engine (even though it was scoped in my original 13K quote) as I dont care about resale and I'm painting into Golf despite the original color.

 

Is it reasonable to find someone to paint for ~5K if I just want it to look good and not to make it 'perfect'?  Right now I'm just looking at shops and it's hard enough finding shops that do complete paint work.

[dang]

I use a local guy here in Roseville for typical late model salvage rebuilds, usually painting a portion of a car, three or four panels, etc.  They do good work, nice paint booth, but I'm not sure if they'd want to disassemble/reassemble a 50 year old car with all of its issues.  You also need to consider that most of these guys take pride in their work so to ask them to just do a "decent" job when they usually do very nice work isn't realistic.

 

If you can send me some good photos of your car I'll see what I can do.

 

BTW, interesting timing on your part.  I have a '73 Golf tii that I'm going to repaint the top surfaces soon (hood, top, trunk lid).  I'm using single stage paint.