Anyone know of a good mopar body shop in Wisconsin/Iowa/Minnesota

FJ5 chally · Nov 2, 2014

Hello,

I am seeking an experienced body shop or person that does good quality work?? My car is a California car (desert), and needs some work but not a ton.. I called a couple shops in Iowa and they quoted me 10 to 15k for body work and full rotisserie paint in/out/top/bottom... I'm sorry, but this way too much to pay for what little work this car needs..
Thank you

moparmarks · Nov 2, 2014

10K to completely disassemble a car. Put it on a rotisserie and do body and paint then completely re-assemble it is pretty dang cheap. I probably couldn't and wouldn't do it for that. I don't know what you think your going to pay for that amount of work.

belvedere 67 · Nov 2, 2014

How long would it take to do the work? One month? Two months? If a guy could do one a month that's 120,000. a year.. pretty good in my book.

moparmarks · Nov 2, 2014

Quite a bit of work to do in 160 hours. Hell a gallon of quality two stage paint is about a grand right there.

FJ5 chally · Nov 2, 2014

Sorry, I should have stated... The body person would receive car completely stripped... NO major body work, just a couple door dings... Yes that's ALOT for how little it needs.. If it were that much to do all that work you mentioned, I would be all over that...

eric383 · Nov 2, 2014

Contact Dennis, he is in Fort Atkinson WI and see what he has to say. He is on FBBO when he has time.
http://brantsprecisionautobody.net/

FJ5 chally · Nov 2, 2014

Thank you Eric 383... Will get in touch with him..

68 Sport Satellite · Nov 2, 2014

A little under 2 yrs ago I had my '68 Plymouth Sport Satellite rust free damage free California car done - body and paint including disassembly and re-assembly. Not rotisserie. Left the motor and interior intact. All 3 places quoted me minimum of 100 hrs of labor. Prices ranged from $9K - $15K. It ended up being $10K total + cost of new rubber seals. I initially had sticker shock too, but prices ain't what they used to be. The only way I could see saving some serious dough is to find a good painter by referral that now works out of his garage. With low overhead he could give you a deal and maybe do it for something in the $4-$6K range?

Bottom line is - 160 hrs sounds about right.

Just remember - these cars have some serious sheet metal real estate and it's not easy to smooth out the factory waves (yes, they had small waves even from the factory stampings). Even for a damage free car they need to skim a thin layer of bondo to fill the valleys and dings and then block sand it smooth.

Other option is to take it to Earl Shive or Miracle or Maaco and they can shoot the cheapie paint job for under a grand...

69 GTX · Nov 7, 2014

I have my car being done at a shop right now. He told me up front it would take a min 200 hours to do. I had all new panels installed and was blasted so car was disassembled ready to go. He has had the car since Sept. I expect it back by Thanksgiving. he is painting everything on the car inside and out. I'm expecting 15-17500$ Materials alone were $2500

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A lot of guys will work cheaper for ca$h

super-bee_ski · Nov 7, 2014

Its an expensive hobby!

zyzzyx · Nov 7, 2014

I'm doing my own, in a friend's bodyshop. Paint and material prices are out of this world! I will do things to my car that no one in their right mind
will attempt to do if it was for a customer. My friend will paint the car because he paints daily. I don't. I don't want to throw away $1200.00 in material.
When the car is done it will probably be worth 35k. 10k is NOT alot for a paint job.

Anyone know of a good mopar body shop in Wisconsin/Iowa/Minnesota

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