Originally Posted by kennyg

Maaco is a franchise and so the business is paying for and benefiting from national advertising, also unfortunately, they take the flack for the bad businesses using the same name. Prep is the key to good paint. In the case of sand scratches, too many people rely on high build primers to cover up scratches they put in or the previous body man did. I stripped a roof on a '65 last week that was painted so long ago that it had laquer on it, and there are deep grinder marks from where someone stripped the paint and/or were grinding off surface rust. It will be an involved process of rust conversion, primers, fillers, primers, blocking, primer... before the surface is ready to be topcoated. I was impressed immediately when you mentioned that your Stang would be stripped by soda blasting as that meant the shop was taking the body down to bare metal instead of just covering up what was already there. kennyg