(Alive To Die?!) The Old Genuine Commercials of Earl Scheib
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- Here is some Earl Scheib Commercials from the 1950s to 2010s that I put in one CZcams Video.
Earl Scheib, Inc. owns a national chain of automobile painting and body repair shops. Operating under the New Earl Scheib Paint & Body Shop name, the California-based chain consists of more than 175 stores in about 150 U.S. cities. Though the stores are primarily known for economically priced, production auto painting services, body and fender repair services are also offered. Earl Scheib manufactures its own paint at a company-owned facility in Missouri. The company established a fleet sales division in 1998. The Earl Scheib brand became well known largely through founder Earl Scheib, a pioneer of advertising. Beginning in July 2010, the company closed certain locations and franchised off the remaining locations to shop managers, giving them the opportunity to become small business owners. Specifically, the company offered them the rights to purchase all the equipment and fixtures in their shops and to use the Earl Scheib name for their own business. Many managers took advantage and agreed to the terms, resulting in today's independent Earl Scheib paint centers. These modern Earl Scheib centers now offer paint jobs and most of today's Scheib shops also offer custom painting, collision repair, and pinstriping. Earl Scheib the company is no more, but the name still lives on independently.
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My father had a car painted by Earl Sheib back in the 60s. They painted the tires at no extra charge!
That's like when my friend's got an apartment. Before moving in it was painted. The landlord to them to paint everything. They did, including the bathtub.
My father worked at the original Earl Schibe in 1940 doing upholstery. This skill got him a job upholstery DC-3 Seats. In 43 he joined the navy and returned to his jon keeping his seniority. He later sealed space capsules, Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.
Those Esti-meters were the pinnacle of technological achievement, with mad accuracy. Still in use in the Boeing QA/QC department.
LOL 😂😂😂
Very true
I got one of course I knew beforehand scuff and spray they're not going to pull out any of the wrinkles or the dents or put any Bondo cut out rust holes nothing the paint application was pretty solid I like how they're just melting lead into the holes
Earl Scheib was known for the 50/50 paint job. It looked good from 50 feet away while going 50 miles an hour.
My friend had his 1970 Challenger painted there.. We spoke to one of the painters, who told us mask as much as you can yourself, and get a better job. We then offered the painter another 40 dollars on top of the 59.95... He said bring it on a Saturday, the boss is not here... Because he did alot of painting, the job was very nice, zero overspray.. No one believed it was an Earl Sheib job... Great memories
Should have just offered 40 bucks and forgot the company. He already revealed what he was.....you were just negotiating his selling price.
@@donnienicholson6062 Not paying the company would be stealing... Real car guys, and Drag Racers are honest people...
My family lived in Milwaukee and I remember driving past the $29.95 sign every week as a kid. My father had a blue 1968? Ford. For some reason, those cars in that color had bad paint jobs and the paint on the hood of our vehicle peeled. I don't know if Earl Schibe told my dad to mask his car.. I believe my dad knew better than to believe that he was going to get the paint job he wanted for $29.95 without doing his own masking. My dad was very meticulous and did all of the masking himself. I remember him being happy with the job they did
Had a real terrible experience back in the early 70s.With my father's 1965 Chevy pickup, he was told to come pick it up and as soon as he went to pick it up over at Earl Scheib, one of the painters, left the can of paint out on the floor and he ran over it and splashed paint all over the side of the bed.
@@donnienicholson6062What was he? Im sure you were observing that he was a good guy helping a kid out and being tipped for the effort?
My first car was painted by Earl Scheib. They did a good job.
Thanks Earl, I put myself thru college buying repairing and reselling wrecked or damaged cars. Preparation was the difference between a quality paint job or a joke. 30 years later my family was shocked when I repaired my wife's totaled car in a couple days. They never imagined I knew how to do such things.
I had my car painted by Earl Scheib in the late 70s. There were only a few colors to choose from for $29.95 but the car looked much better for that cheap price. They even painted the windows, chrome and wheels at no extra charge!
No ups and no extras!
I saw Earl at the Beverly Hilton Hotel just before he passed away. One very nice man. He came over and said I to us. Wheel Chair and oxygen tank. Very nice man.
I remember these commercials in the mid 50's. They were shown during Sunday afternoons on the local Detroit area stations. Great to see them again.
Used to joke...Earl Scheib, I will paint any car for $29.95, $39.95 we won't paint the tires, $49.95 we won't paint the windows, $59.95 we won't paint the bumpers; etc.😁
We used to say "Earl Scheib, we'll paint any car, any color, leave the windows down and we'll spray the interior for free". I knew a guy that had one painted and it looked good. Back of the mirrors were still in primer but he didn't notice until later.
I mistakenly took my beloved 1976 Cadillac Sedan de Ville to "Earl Scheib" at an Irving,Texas location in 1980. I had some vandalism chemical damage on the passenger side, rear quarter panel. You would think Cadillac Cotillion White would be easy to match out of all the colors they offered. They claimed to color match "perfectly".
Well, without even pre-sanding, they painted the rear quarter panel a light cream color, removed the Cotillion White fender skirt, painted half the tire the cream color, and left the "Sedan de Ville" nameplate on the rear fender and painted it, too. They replaced the Cotillion White fender skirt back onto the car on the cream color rear fender they had just painted.
They actually expected me to pay $200.00 for it! After hiring an attorney and the whole affair getting really ugly, "Earl Scheib" had to pay Roger Meier Cadillac dealership in Dallas to have the car professionally painted correctly.
You get what you pay for.
It all comes down to management. I worked at an Earl Scheib and went through five managers in a space of fourteen months. I did a better job than they wanted and ruffled some feathers. I eventually went to work for shops that did custom work and never looked back. Their paint stunk, rumor had it they used recycled paint. Each full paint job was allotted two sheets of 220 grit paper, two rolls of 3/4" masking tape and a stack of newspaper. Prep time for each car was a grand total of two hours and straight into the booth.
I remember taking my brothers 1978 Subaru wagon to one. First, we sanded and primed it with rattle cans at home. The next day we drove to Earl Schiebs and removed the wipers and masked up the windows and bumpers with newspaper in the parking lot. We were pleasantly surprised it looked pretty damn good. Yes, there was minor overspray here and there, but we took care of that at home.
I live in Los Angeles and I remember these commercials from the late 60s on up.Every year he raised his price by $10.The last price I remember was $109.95 in the early 80s.When I was in high school in 1976-77 a friend of mine had his 67 GTO painted turquoise and it had over spray on the tires!
Sad.
2022 The LAST Earl Scheib location in Anaheim CA painted a few of my project cars... Johnathon and his people did a great job. I always remove the bumpers, grill and trim from the car, gets much better results, the body and paint guys appreciate the effort of the car owner.
Earl Scheib for President!
Earl died years ago.
@@glennso47
People would still vote for him if he were on the ballot.
Sure, I'm in!
I took an old Ford pickup truck to Earl Scheib in San Diego back in 1971 for at the time one of their $19.95 paint jobs. Their ad was said $19.95 paint job and we will pull out one dent. Bring in in by 9am and pick up at 5pm. I had this truck painted blue, and they painted everything, wheels & the bumpers as well. I picked it up and the paint was still tacky and was told not to wash it or park it under any trees for at least 30 days.
Yep, you had to drive it there masked except for the windshield and side windows. For a generous tip up front they masked the windows.
I worked there back in the 80s and oh the stores i could tell! Our special making paper was old newspapers. We were given 2&1/4 rolls of tape per car. If that wasn't enough, oh well! They kept the tape locked up better than the cash
Earl Scheib will paint any car any color for $99 dollars leave the windows down and we'll paint the inside for free.
My first car was a 1951 Chevy that I got in 1960 and Earl Scheib painted it cherry red and it was a passable paint job.
I had my 55Ford painted there in the late 60’s with Earl Sheib blue, rust and all😀👍It looked good!
I had may car painted in the Boston area for 50 dollars, in the early 80s.
And I was quite happy with the service provided by their store.
Obviously, some paint jobs for Ferraris and Corvettes could go for thousands of dollars.
My Car was an old 2 door 1970 Chevy Malibu.
Born when Detroit was still able to make good cars.
Thank you for this fantastic video.
It was always easy to spot one of their jobs with the odd paint color from a far distance.
It looked like someone used a giant crayon.
@@DonariaRegia
And a paint brush.
We had a ES competitor back in the 1950's in ELA, Park Auto Bake; $29.95 and baked-on ! Opened the newspaper one day and PAB offered a special at $19.95 and my 1951 dark green metallic Pontiac was in need so I ran it over to PAB and requested a black job. Picked up the car when it was ready and it looked really nice and when I got home took a close look; the flow was unbelievable, the gloss so good that I was afraid to wash it for a time for fear of marring the finish. Parked in front of our house, drive-bys would stop and ask where I got the paint job. Later sold the car so don't know how it held up long term..
No ups! No extras Riiight! I miss Scheib, we need him today more than ever, They are all gone now.
Wonderful memory painting two cars at different times; an Audi 80 and a Mazda rotary engine coupe. Can’t compare factory OEM of course. But helped me to “facelifted” the two cars and earned me some pocket money putting me thru university in San Diego. What fond memory.
I got my 53 Buick painted for $29.95 ($318 in 2024 dollars) around 1960. The job was adequate and covered up all the faded paint. It was the best deal around.
Imagine a $318 paint job today? Maybe for a hood but, that's about it.
I remember the Earl of Shieb in Freeport on Sunrise Highway. The auto shop teacher used to get his street rods painted there and one was The Beach Boys Little Duce Coupe. Goes to show proper prep and a perfect paint job occurs.
My mom had her 61 Fairlane painted there in 66. They told her not to wash it for a few days. But as she was the type of person to go to her grave knowing more than everyone, she washed it the next day. The paint came off in sheets. Of course it was everyone else's fault.
As l teenager who loved cars, l started hanging out at Earl Scheib to learn what to do for my car. I would bring in my car and mask it myself in line, then started doing light bodywork. l was hired when the bodyman quit. Then, l became a manager when he left. I spent about 5 years in the Baltimore shops and really enjoy fixing crazy messed up cars on a dime to this day. Basically, l wasted my life on cars. A lot off crazy things happened at Earl Sceib. I saw cars masked, sanded, painted and detailed in less than a half hour. The whole crew would jump on it if they got a $5 tip each. I had customers literally paint their car for a date that night. When paint jobs were $19.95, you could get a $14.95 special that was the bench slop left over in a 55 gallon drum from all the other paint jobs before changing colors. The manager would mix it up with a paint paddle and hang it up by the color chart. It was always a blue/purple color.
Good work sir! 👌🏽
There were always cool cars at any Earl Scheib location. The mid-80’s were great because they were fixing the amazing cars that we are literally crying out for now. Great memories!!! Thanks Earl!!!
Sir, Earl should have seen the body work performed by the Hess & Eisenhart Co., Cincinnati. They built many custom limousines, and their regular production of the S&S hearses and ambulances, (Sayers & Scoville). I met Mr. Willard Hess, the president of the company, at the Ohio State Fair, in Columbus, in 1970. I had a Superior rated project, "The Role of Modern Air Conditioning in Hospital Asepsis". It was an air filtering machine that used an electronic precipitator, followed by a High Efficiency Air Filter, (HEPA), then a germicidal ultraviolet lamp chamber to kill viruses and bacteria. Mr. Hess gave me his business card, and said, present this to my staff, and you will be given a tour of our plant. I never went to the plant, that customized almost all of our Presidential limousines! They have been in business since the days of "horse-drawn" coaches! I should have gone there! I could have gotten a great job! Thanks for your patience, and reading this--it brought back memories of 1970! RD Rumpff, Celina, Ohio USA.
Thank you for posting.Back in the 70's I met the director of advertising and he told me the best TV spot that was the most successful was when Mr. Scheib got out there and said "I'll paint any car for $29.95! So much for marketing degrees!
And when you take it to the car wash, the paint comes off in sheets...
Back when the founder of a company did their own commercials. Earl has become an American icon and many people have fond memories of him. The paint jobs? Maybe not so much. 😂
Right! I remember those later commercials from the 70s I repeated RIGHT! every time that was on tv
Right!
I worked in the collision repair industry for 44 years. Nowadays you cannot buy a sleeve of quality masking tape for $29.95. We rarely did complete refinishing except in the case of vandalism. I retired 6 years ago and I would say that a complete refinish including R&I of all trim would cost in the neighborhood of $4-5,000.
Your're right! I had my 64 Pontiac, painted by Schieb in 1970, for $39.95! Recently, I took my 2004 Camry to a
paint shop to just repaint the hood, which is chipping! They wanted $1,200. just for the hood! How did Schieb do it?
It took several contacts to find a local independent body shop willing to fully repaint my older car that already had all the trim removed, door jambs done, and needed no body work. Seems their major preference is insurance jobs limited to panel repairs for a quick turnaround. Some had shop signs stating they won't do any rust repair, which is a major need in the snow belt where roads are salted. All paint work is very expensive today in part because the cost of automotive paint and related materials has become outrageous.
You should see the cost for a half pint of paint. The boss said he's going to be closing soon!
in the 1970s ,it was pretty common to buy a used car or truck that had been painted three or four different colors one right over the other by earl sheib .
In 1962 my father purchased a 1960 Ford sedan with only 400,000 miles. BS you say! True story, it was a retired NYC taxi can which was only turned off to change the oil. It was orange and red when it arrived at our house. Prepping it for painting was a family event including sanding. Earl Scheib applied the beautiful black custom paint for only $29.95. When washing it was recommended to not use a straight stream out of your garden hose, which turned out to be very good advice. One year later he bought another, this time it was a 1961 Studebaker which was appropriately painted brown.
Earl Scheib had a competitor in my. area , Paintarama $29.95 ,the good old days😊
I remember Paintarama in Hatboro, PA it was there for years.
Seattle had “ Spray King “ 1970’s. $99.95 & up n up n up….
The cost of materials is astronomical and has been for years. You can’t buy a sleeve of 3M masking tape for $29.95 today. Not only that repair procedure’s are much different. I wrote a thousand estimates over the years to repair just this sort of thing. First they would remove the washer nozzles from the hood, possibly remove the headlamps and drop both ends of the front bumper. The fender liners may need to be removed if they are in the way as would any moldings on the fenders. Sand the hood down and feather the chips out, priming the hood, color coat the hood and possibly blending into the fenders. Clear coat the hood and fenders. Wet sand and buff as necessary and reinstall all the trim. Depending on number of chips priming and sanding more than once. It’s approximately a 3-4 day job. There’s probably 5-6 paint hours at the prevailing labor rate, plus paint hours multiplied by the prevailing materials rate. Twelve hundred for this job sounds about right. What did you make in 1970? I’m sure that it was a fraction of what you make today if you are still in the labor market. I never recommended to my customers spending money on purely ascetic repairs. I always wondered if you spend money to repair something like this, two weeks later you get rear ended and the car is junk. The money was spent for nothing.
My mother had a two year old early 80's Ford that was side swiped while parked in front of her house. She paid for Earl Scheib's body work and a premium paint job. Within 2 years the Scheib paint was peeling, revealing the original paint which had NOT been sanded or primed.
I worked for Earl Scheib and his wife in their home in Beverly Hills one time .I remember it had thick orange carpet in a mud century modern .I worked with race horses when I was very young. He died of a lung problem I wonder if all those years around body shops hurt him.
It's possible, racing fuel fumes killed the nicest man you'd ever meet, lived in our street.
thats nearly funny,
Earl couldn't get past the EPA nowadays. Norfolk Southern can blow up trains full of nasty chemicals but Earl would beshut down.
NS has more money, so it's ok for them to destroy the environment. They can pay the appropriate bribes.
Around 1983, I had a 79 Impala wagon painted in Kenner, LA. I prepped as best I could. I paid about 129.00.
I've always been a big fan of Earl Scheib!!!
I bought a paint job for $ 29.95 and when I got the car back there was paint chips on the freshly painted surface from peeling off the tape before paint dried.
Most of the customers were high school and college kids who bought a car for $300 then paid $29 to get it painted....yes it looked like a kid with spray paint did it, but still looked better than is was before.
They did a really good job for the money.
Around 1973 I bought a used chocolate brown 67 Chevy Impala. Drove it from Chicago to Dallas. It was back to the original yellow when i arrived.
I used advertise car painting outta my garage. Did a couple but it way too much work. Then I saw an Earl Scheib commercial and had a brain storm. I started taking the cars to Earl, it was $99.99 at the time, 10 bucks more for hardener. I’d charge $250.00 Prior to taking cars to Earl, I’d take them the local spray and wash bay because Earl’s employees weren’t always diligent about carefully preparing vehicles. After picking up vehicles, I’d touch up any over spray. After a couple of years, the city shut me down.
Love it great job . As a kid I remember a few of those commercials
we live in the boston area and my dad had two cars painted by earl scheib back in the late 50's/ early 60's. i remember on one of them painted right over the pine needles lodged in the roof rain gutters and some of the lug nuts were loose inside the hubcaps. i also remember the full page adds in the newspapers.
I remember those commercials back then. I remember they were always the loudest commercial when it came on, and I saw a story somewhere that verified that.
A normal conversation has high and low volumes in pitch for our words, so the peak volume of any spoken word, at its loudest, if you looked at the sound waves on an oscilloscope it is a momentary spike, the valleys would be a lower volume tone for the words.
What Scheib did was have his commercials run through an enhancer that RAISED the volume of the lower volumed sections, so that they were the same height as the highest volumed peak. So the commercial would go out with the volume at its highest allowable peak (there is a limit on how high the signal can be) so the words were always at top volume through the whole commercial, that was why the commercial was always at top volume when it came on - you COULDN'T ignore it!
PURCHASED A 1963 RAMBLER AMERICAN FOR 100 DOLLARS IN 1979 HAD EARL PAINT IT AQUA BLUE, FOR 39.95, LOVED THE PAINT JOB
1965 My first job was hand sanding cars At the Van Nuys California shop after school and Saturday's I was 15.
In the 1960s, a neighbor had their early Ford Falcon painted a nice, shiny red at Earl Scheib. I don't remember if it lasted 3 years before it was a dull matte red-orange.
There were even more Earl Scheib commercials. Good save.
As Old Earl got older, the paint fumes got to him,, RiGGGHHHHT
I had my Camaro painted at Earl Scheib in 86 or 87. I did lots of the prep work, took the trim off etc myself and used them for just the spray process. I actually ended up with a very nice paint job but I did a big part of the work myself.
They saved money on the prep work, if you did the prep yourself, they actually did a pretty good job of actually spraying it.
lol If you didn't want your wheel wells and exhaust tips to match the body color, it was up to you to mask those off yourself.
A few years ago, this guy found a $29.99 coupon in some old newspapers, the coupon had no expiration date, so he took it to a Scheib paint shop. He was going to take them to court, and they ended up painting the car just to get rid of him,
I remember looking at an Earl Scheib special. They didn’t even wipe the leaves off the car.
Gramp's had his '50 Ford Scheib painted, it lasted one Buffalo Winter, he had it redone in the spring and sold it, it lasted another Winter.
Had a 1977 Nova painted by Earl Scheib in 1986 and only cost $229.99 for the better paint job. After about 3 months the paint on the driver's side door peeled off and stuck to the bottom of my forearm. I just laughed and kept driving.
We had an Earl Scheib paint shop in our city for a long time. I remember seeing the shop & sign for a lot of years. The sign is gone, but the building is still there. I worked with a lady that had her car painted there, and it was a terrible paint job.! 🎨 . Runs & sags everywhere.! Good thing she didn't pay extra for the runs.... !😂
In the beginning of my career as a 38 year high end collision refinisher, I became desperate enough to work at Schieb. I lasted one day. They wouldn't even wipe the dirt off the cars before painting them, it was really bad. I wanted to become a craftsman, so I never went back, not even to get my check.
Painted a mirror on a Lexus a while back 3 step paint was almost 200 bucks
I remember as a kid in the early 70's I could always tell the Earl Scheib car by the overspray on the fuel tank and muffler.
Had my first car a '60 Chevy painted there for $49.95 in 1967. Traded it in for a '67 Mustang GT a few months later before the paint started peeling off.
Back in nineteen sixty three.
Santa ana california. On seventeenth and lincoln. Santa ana california. Earl shive.
$19,95.🤙🏽🤘🏽🤟🏾😎🤷♂️
"LEAVE THE WINDOWS DOWN, WE DO THE INTERIOR FOR FREE"😅😂😮LMFAO
I had a car painted there for 29.95, and later days I got another car painted for. 99.95, that was '82!😊
I had very good luck with Earl Scheib on a Ford Futura back in 1982 after some local yocal's work came off in sheets... at twice the price!
Damn bro made his own materials 🐐
29.95 and he would have a free 20 bucks in body work special. We took a 61 falcon there and they painted everything but the body. Tires, mirrors and taillights
I have a 1940 DeSoto with perfect patina - not a fleck of paint on the outside now - and an Earl Scheib bumper sticker!
Even a cheap paint job can look good if you take your time and do a good job on the prep work before painting.
Remember first seeing the Scheib spots on WKBD-TV Detroit when we got cable in the late 70's. Interesting seeing the earlier 50's spots where he plays it straight without the goofy expressions he had later on.
My Friend had them paint his 64 GTO in 74 for $49.95, metal flake blue, looked pretty good.
Years ago I worked at Earl scheib in Austin Texas.😂
I remember the $99.95 price lol.
My dad had it done on his old Ford pickup - it was ok for an old pickup lol.
the paint job was okay for the price , not for today. biggest issue was the body pre paint prep. best to mask and do body work somewhere else. just have Scheib spray the paint.
My coworker in the early '80s wife "suprised" him by having the color changed from silver to red. When you opened the doors it was still silver on the sides of the door and the door frame.
When I was little my dad new Earl he said to my dad take off all the chrome and we spray the car it looked good my uncle loved it so much he had his done and Earl lived up to his name I paint anything for 99.95 and he did my uncle didn't take his chrome off his car and they sprayed right over it he was ahead of the time 😂
I the early '60's, my dad took his 1954 Buick there for a $29.95 paint job. It looked good for a while then the paint started to show pits and some peeling. So much for that. You get what you pay for.
You're scheibing me man! Don't scheib me!😆
Absolutely love Earl. $10 free metal repair, those were the days.🎉😢
A $29.95 paint job. Can’t beat it! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
My 1998 Oldsmobile 98 was painted by them in about 1972 or so ,I think I payed 79.99 ? Don’t remember but they did a great job. Paint looked good for years even after I sold the car !
Perhaps your 1972 Oldsmobile 98 was painted in 1998 rather than your 1998 Oldsmobile 98 being painted in 1972.
I had a Mercury Capri that was painted for $29.95 at Earl Scheib's it wasn't bad, even back then. Now just to look at a car they will charge you $50. Then I had a mustang painted at Mako for $200, it was excellent, my how times have changed when you get the Government involved
Of course Earl did an excellent job
The paint was guaranteed for up to 70 MPH. LOL I kill me.
Earl Scheib would paint your car for about the average young workers WEEKS PAY. Not a bad deal. Maaco is the modern version.
I have seen some Maaco paint jobs that were pretty good. They will cost a few hundred today not including body work.
In the NE USA we had Maaco. They had the same type of "specials" and their slogan was "Uh-Oh.......Better get Maaco" as they had a picture of a car backed into a mailbox or a fence.
They always used the cheapest acrylic enamels on the market that had no brand name on the drum it came in.It was never mixed properly so you got a light red from the top and a dark red from the snot on the bottom. The concept of primer was unknown? Just scuff it and go!
If you slipped the "technician" an extra $10 he would actually clean the Sears Craftsman or Chineseium spray gun properly AND empty all of the water from the bottom of the air compressor before he shot your car.
Another $5 would get you Dupont or PPG hardener/activator instead of the generic crap in the white bottle that said "Caution-Isocyanates!" (F-in Superglue Lol) on the side. If you were into flipping cars for mad money? Maaco was your friend!
I like that the black guy is innocently straightening out his wallet when he is beset by Snickerdoodle.
I inherited grandfathers car while in high school. They did a fine job for $29.95.
I got a 200 buck job on my trans am. Looked pretty good
I had my red vw bug painted in the mid 70"s.,It looked great! I took off the windshield wipers,chrome,everything I could get off,and masked everything including the tires!
I work with a guy that had is 55 chevy painted by that company. It had runs and dull spots in different places, but for $29.95 I wouldn't much care.
'Um, it's ten to twenty THOUSAND dollars for a quality paint job in 2024?!? IF you can find anyone to do it ... Some automotive paints cost a $thousand$ a gallon!!!
I worked for E S, and most of the shops all same had wood roofs and if looked Up when in side and all see was ???? who knows? ? ?
I just read Some of the comments. Yes you usually tip the painter good they'll put hardener actually in the paint and it will actually look like a decent paint job and you bring it in on the weekends which is unheard of now but in my time yeah guys would be painting all night long getting them out
It was the same at maaco and some of the other companies. CZcams painter or get to know the painter or the body guys and take care of them they'll take care of you. Because they're not making s*** anyway
A case study in inflation!
No need to mask anything off. We'll just paint over it! (windows, bumpers, license plates, etc).