college students paint my car?
02-13-2008, 08:45 PM
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if you're in the greated LA area, there's a vocational school called "West Valley Occupational" (Near Pierce College) .My buddy did a class there...and loved it. Now i'm going to take my POS ford Probe there to get it fixed up!!
02-13-2008, 09:23 PM
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tight! im going to give them a buzz tomorrow! 
02-14-2008, 09:08 PM
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I am in one in Columiana, Alabama.(high school tech class) Our teacher checks our work and won't let it go till it is very good. We usually have a team or 2 or 3 guys working on a car and we get almost 2 hours a day to work on it. Yeah, it takes a while, depending on how much body work is needed. If we only had to sand it down a little, then paint it and buff and everything, it would probably take a week and a half or two. We only charge the cost of parts plus twenty percent. We do stripes, which our teacher is highly involved in the process. We just finished a miata that is white with black stripes and it looks awesome. For example also, we had a 91 ford taurus that was wrecked in the front. Needed a new radiatior support and new front bumper and fenders. Anywhere else they took it to and it would have been totalled. We gave them an estimate and I believe it only costed them 700 bucks.
02-14-2008, 10:47 PM
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I am in one in Columiana, Alabama.(high school tech class) Our teacher checks our work and won't let it go till it is very good. We usually have a team or 2 or 3 guys working on a car and we get almost 2 hours a day to work on it. Yeah, it takes a while, depending on how much body work is needed. If we only had to sand it down a little, then paint it and buff and everything, it would probably take a week and a half or two. We only charge the cost of parts plus twenty percent. We do stripes, which our teacher is highly involved in the process. We just finished a miata that is white with black stripes and it looks awesome. For example also, we had a 91 ford taurus that was wrecked in the front. Needed a new radiatior support and new front bumper and fenders. Anywhere else they took it to and it would have been totalled. We gave them an estimate and I believe it only costed them 700 bucks.
(just re-read that, and maybe i read it wrong the first time, that the taurus hadn't been to other shops, but if it had it would have been totalled....)
02-15-2008, 12:09 PM
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The Vo-tech near me does this but as far as time frames I have heard of people getting their cars back anywhere from a few weeks to a whole semester. Since it is a class they usually are training on these cars and only work on them during class time.
02-15-2008, 01:51 PM
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i am a full time painter now, but i taught the voactional class at my community college, i know the teachers are very picky about how the cars turn out, i was, id give it a try, im sure youd be surprised
