I have an 84 Vanagon.  I had it painted at my local Joint Vocational
School.  A bunch of high school kids do all the work.  It takes them about
3 months to do the work.  They only get a couple of hours a day to work  on
their projects.  The best thing is it only cost me about $540.00 for all
the body work and paint.  I stayed origional color except for a cool wide
stripe they put around the whole van.  I had mostly seam and surface rust.
 I did have a rust through spot under a side window and someone had drilled
a hole through the roof to put some antenna cable through that was
repaired.  Also I only had the outside painted not including the inside
door jams.  All and all they did a super job.  Good luck Jeff
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> From: John & Wendy <westy@CAPECOD.NET>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: full paint job prices
> Date: Monday, March 20, 2000 7:58 AM
>
> I would like to know what people have been quoted for paint jobs on their
> Vanagons, inlcuding body work.  We are starting to get estimates for our
> Westy which will be from the gutter down, not removing the pop top and
not
> painting the pop top.  I realize the amount of body work & prep time can
> vary widly but this will give us a starting point.  If you do respond,
> please include the year and condition of your van.
> TIA
> John & Wendy
> Cape Cod, MA
>
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