"I will paint any car for $99.95" .... Earl Scheib"

[sithot]

His ghost walks among us
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...=0&FORM=NVPFVR

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...-6500-b-o.html

Somebody sure as hell painted the whole car!

Tom

[LiveFromNY]

Love the old Earl Scheib commercials. Brings back so many memories. About a year ago I found a 14ft x 5ft original Earl Scheib sign for sale in Virginia. I had it trucked down to Texas and it's proudly mounted in my shop. Brings a smile to everyone's face and I've heard a wide and hilarious assortment of Earl Scheib impressions thanks to that sign.

[sithot]

Love the old Earl Scheib commercials. Brings back so many memories. About a year ago I found a 14ft x 5ft original Earl Scheib sign for sale in Virginia. I had it trucked down to Texas and it's proudly mounted in my shop. Brings a smile to everyone's face and I've heard a wide and hilarious assortment of Earl Scheib impressions thanks to that sign.

Great find! Good for you. I'd love to find the same thing. If only I could locate the Johnny Carson skit where they rolled out a Corvair that had been painted in its entirety. (wheels, tires, etc).
It was hysterical.

Tom

[Bill Simmeth]

That car you linked to on Pelican has been for sale since 2007 ! Wonder why it hasn't sold?

[davep]

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[jaudette3]

They painted a '56 Chevy hot rod of mine back in the day in SoCal. As I recall, it took two days and cost $29.95. Then on to Tijuana for the interior which they did overnight (a night to remember).

That was a great car. Fast - and the backseat was really roomy.

John

[Bummler]

They painted a '56 Chevy hot rod of mine back in the day in SoCal. As I recall, it took two days and cost $29.95. Then on to Tijuana for the interior which they did overnight (a night to remember).

That was a great car. Fast - and the backseat was really roomy.

John

Those were the days...

You had to keep an eye on the upholsterers in TJ. Their work was top notch but you had to watch them otherwise they'd stuff your seats with horse manure.

[Chuck Miller]

Back in the $39.95/$59.95 Scheib era the weird thing was that the paint had two distinctive characteristics...
- It faded extremely fast (noticeably within a couple of years, or months if it was left in the sun)
- BUT the paint (the Diamond Gloss finish) was EXTREMLY hard... so much, that if you 'cut it' (color sanded, and rubbed it out) fast enough (within 2 days) the paint itself looked pretty damn good. Of course if you didn't slip the 'shooter' and extra $20 the application still sucked.

My, my .... was this just yesterday? ...........
NO IT WASN'T CHUCK !!!!!!!!!!!...

[sithot]

That car you linked to on Pelican has been for sale since 2007 ! Wonder why it hasn't sold?

Cynic!

[Eminence Gris]

Back in the late 90s, I happened upon a Carelli 928 convertible. It had been given the then-popular "white out" treatment: with everything except the wiper blades and tires painted metallic pearl. It's not as if I could have waited to find another, since only a handful were ever made. So I ended up replacing all the seals and having the paint stripped.

Cannot locate the photo at the moment, but it was horrific looking. I was able to resurrect it, but it cost a lot of money.

On the yellow car, one hopes the trim wasn't (as Scheib used to call it) "scuffed" for paint adhesion.