1999 Kenworth w900 Repaint

Solid color, tow tone or any stripes?

 

Do you know how much of that quote was for prep work? Like as in removing emblems, lights, bezels etc?

Got an old Kenworth A cab torn down to a shell that I gotta get out for paint one of these days.

 

I want to get my 1996 w900 repainted like yours. Someone painted it before from white to red and you can tell it was a hack job. From 15 feet away it looks great, up close you can see all the corners that were cut.

$10k doesn’t sound too bad after seeing the pictures. I’m afraid they would find so many issues the farther they tear it down haha. My girlfriends truck is being repainted as we speak and they tore it down like yours, except it was much easier and simplified being a 1999 Columbia. I think they quoted $3500 if it was to be the original color, and $5500 for a pearly metallic red with clear coat.

 

A local company here has been ordering all of their new trucks with solid paint and using vinyl to stripe them. It’s relatively inexpensive and you can easily remove it.

 

There's a place in Elizabethtown, KY called Extreme Polishing & Detailing that paints trucks for good prices. They post on FB a lot videos of paint and polish jobs they have done. Looks like good work too. A buddy of mine has had some polish work done by them.

 

In general you get what you pay for with paint jobs. We got our W900 day cab painted a couple of years ago, but we did all the work of removing and reinstalling most of the stuff that had to come off for paint (headache rack, lights, air cleaners, grab handles, etc), and we swapped out some other labor to help with the price.
It's my understanding though that a decent paint job on a truck generally runs in the $15,000 range.

 

My opinion is go original if it came with stripes or whatever. But I have always prefer one color 2 stage paint. If the truck is a really earlier style, scroll for that year and see what tones was available. In other words..... ORIGINAL..... but that’s me. Custom paint is preferable when you go all out, show truck style.