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  3. i dont remember prices that low , but in the 69$ range . not sure they even stripped the wax at that price

    1. I do.

      Had a friend get his 58 chevy painted blue back in the 1968

      Looked pretty good too.

  4. Heh! I had my two-tone, three-on-the-floor 1968 Ford Galaxy 500 painted a magnificent purple metal flake at Earl Scheib’s, Los Angeles, March 1974. Drove to Kansas City a few weeks later, littering Route 66 with sheets of purple metal flaked paint all the way. The car looked great until about Barstow; had to use the windshield wipers after that.

    1. Yep, the paint job looked good for a few days,if you parked the car, but deteriorated quickly. They didn’t have much expertise in masking either,as they got overspray on the window rubbers and often on the chrome.

      Earl was a great American success story, even has his own Wikipedia page.

      1. When I was a kid back in northern Ontario in 50s I used to listen to American radio that came in clearly at night. One of my faves was WLS Chicago. That is where I heard Earl himself claim … I WILL PAINT ANY CAR FOR 29.95”.

        Later on I used to call anything that was superficially cleaned up, or quickly painted to make a sale to get rid of something … I referred to that as a ‘Scheib’. As in give it a Scheib and sell it. I still use that term, but then I have to explain the reference … I am old.

        It was those radio stations that exposed me to R&B, soul, and funk … whilst in my northern Ontario town, it was pop and county music. Didn’t care much for that … I became a musician and moved to the US for about 10 years where I lived my dream. Got to play music all over the US through the 60s and early 70s.

    2. HLM, my first car was a 1968 Ford Galaxy 500 but it was an automatic. Dull white until I spilled some chrome polish on the hood and discovered the car was actually very white. Spent the rest of the day waxing it to restore it to it’s original color.

      1. K, it was my first car as well. Red with a white top, 3-speed stick. I bought it used with pre-oxidized red paint so I had it – but not the white top – “Sheibed” a dark metallic purple, at least for a while. It met its demise at a red light in Seattle, July 4, 1975. A woman driving a 1968 Galaxy(!) rear-ended mine, hard, as I waited for the light to turn green. Her car still ran so her last words before speeding away were, “I don’t have insurance!” I believe Seattle is, in fact, the Sammamish word for “Land of uninsured liberals.”

  5. Back in my H.S. days, you could get a running car for $50 to $100. A few of my H.S. chums worked on them a bit – maybe some motor and body work – and actually did the $29.95 Earl Scheib paint job. The word was to mask the car yourself if you didn’t want paint all over the trim, windows, or anywhere else that wasn’t the body.

    It’s a bit fuzzy after all these years, but as I recall it, there actually was a 1-year warranty. Uhhh… they’d repaint it if it started peeling. I think the $29.95 paint was just a step above house paint and generally good enough to stay on for over a year. Then the peeling began.

    The $29.95 was a bait-and-switch price chosen only by the H.S. crowd and the working poor, if the poor even bothered. I think there were two levels up that you were pressured into buying. They had better masking, better paint. and extra coats. Their top-of-the-line paint job wasn’t half bad. You got what you paid for.

  6. Re: the video … I’m pretty certain that’s the same way BMW paints their autos. A highly trained Bavarian auto painter (with a good tan) precisely holds the spray gun 1-1/2” off the surface of the car and precisely dispenses copious quantities of the specially formulated Scheib-flake glitter paint … at $29.95 … it’s one coat to cover … then into the oven.

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