What everyone needs to remember about the Maaco paint shops is that they are
individually owned and operated.  Each shop does operate under the
individual owner or manager's guidelines.  One location can and most likely
will be quite different from another.

Route 66 Rider!
Ramon Hill
Live Long and Be Free
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Michael Wagner
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:27 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Was Painting Now Prepping

I had a Maaco paint job done on a 72 bus I had, and it turned out very well
- but I did all the prep myself.  Like others have suggested, I removed all
glass and just about anything else I could remove from the van.  I even
removed the entire interior and drove it from my home (very illegally I am
sure) the 3 miles to the Maaco place sitting on a plastic milk crate in
place of the drivers seat.  It as basically a semi-drivable metal frame, or
so it seemed.  But the effort was worth it - they did a great job painting
it - they just are notorious for doing lousy prep work. So, do the prep work
yourself - its really not that hard.

M