Mark,

White is one of the cheapest color's----

No pigment---or very little.

Red is the most expensive--especially Porsche red----Many, Many
denaro's.

My advise to anyone who wants a long lasting paint job, is to get the
vehicle base coat / clear coated, with a good quality paint.

(IMPHO PPG the best, Dupont the worst)

The advantage of the clear coat is to keep the UV off the color, or
pigments----

White is an easy color to maintain, and the most resonable to have done.
( plus it hides allot of evil's---)

Later,

Terry

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From: drillock@earthlink.net (mark�drillock) Date: Sat, Mar 16, 2002,
8:41pm (CST-2) To: CTONLINE@WEBTV.NET (Terry K.) Cc:
vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Body Shop question
Terry, what about a repaint of a white Westy? Does cheaper white paint
last any better?
Mark
82 White Westy, needs paint
"Terry K." wrote:
"I remember it this way---
I'll paint any car any color--$29.95
In at nine out by five---
Won't chip fade peel or crack"---
The Uncle Earl way----what a joke---
The price of the repair work, along with refinishing depends on how high
of quality you demand---
Paint the van with straight enamel ----cheapest ( zero color retention )
Paint the van with acrylic enamel---better, but figure on a couple of
years on the fading routine
Paint the Van with a modified enamel / urethane real good color
retention, and figure on 5 to 7 years of good color hold out.
Paint the van with a full blown urethane----figure on going through 2 or
3 engines before the color goes bye, bye.
Don't sand blast the Van, much too aggressive--try some sort of media
blasting, with crushed walnuts or some other gentler to the metal type
product.
This will make for less surface prep on the other end---
One last thought---be sure to have the shop wherever you take the
vehicle in question to be refinished, lay a coat of self etching primer,
over the area to be painted, and then another coat of filling primer
over that----this will guarantee all the older paint, and rust is sealed
off good.
Now the price---lower 1/4th of the van-----
So your talking about from the body line just above the wheels--all the
way around or the line above the door handles?
If it's above the door handles--your a little short on the denaro's
--just above the wheels--maybe $900.00.
Tough call----
Later,
Terry
" The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of the
good deal is gone"---