How much for a decent 1983 Porsche 944 paint job?

How much do u think one would cost? I would want to get black. Thanks for all answers!|||The paint job itself could be quite cheap depending on the specific paint you choose... but as with any such work, how good the results are will depend almost entirely on the prep work to do such a job. And this is also where most of the cost will come in.





Many cars from the 80s are quite difficult to repaint without lots of prep work... the use of lots of rubber trim precludes masking for inexpensive jobs (or at least if you want "decent" results), and the 944 definitely will have this problem.





The ideal situation would be complete disassembly and taking the car back to bare metal... etc... but such a job would be at least $10k, and could easily get closer to $20k depending on the choice of paint and other issues that could come up.





At the other end of the scale would be simply having someone mask it as best they could and respray... which could be a few hundred bucks. But either of these routes won't make sense here (the first beign far too much beyond the value of the car, making it cheaper just to find a mint condition 944 and buy it instead, and the second while cheap is just throwing money away as the paint job will look much worse than the car probably looks now within a year).





Somewhere in between those two is the route that will probably make sense... but the issues will remain. The less costly the work, the less you will get, while anything more will quickly outpace the car's value. Ultimately, look for some referrals to bodyshops in your area and get some quotes and information on exactly what they will do (and see if they have examples of similar work they've done), and you might, just might find someone that can deliver something in the $2-3k range (though you will never recoup this cost if you go to sell the car).|||I don't think that you are going to get the exact paint for that car that was offered when it was manufactured. You can choose from a variety of really poor crappy paint to extremely awesome paint. A PERFECT paint job will run you around $10K. I would say that you spend probably around $5-7K. Why do you want to repaint it though. The car is only worth around $5K AT BEST! There is no point in putting any money into that car.