The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Paint and Body Shop Guys is this a good deal?!?!?

I've got a company quoting me $1200-$1500 to do a dustless blasting, rust inhibitor, and shoot two coats of epoxy primer. First question, is this a pretty good deal? Second question, once blasted and primed I can do bodywork over epoxy, and can I wait for up to a year to do the actual paint job? Do I have to worry about rusting or any issues with a blasted epoxied body sitting unpainted for up to a year?

Is this the entire frame and body panels???
Epoxy primer will hold real good. I'd still keep a cheap tarp over it just to keep it clean

Can you shoot primer? My neighbor paid $335 to get a chassis blasted and all panels but the hood blasted. Then he rolled it across the street and used my place to spray epoxy on it. You can do body work over the epoxy.

Location may mean a lot as far as price goes.
I'm sure others have more experience than me and will chime in as soon as they get back from taking the misses to the moovies!!

No chassis, just body panels and cab. Engine and chasis I will clean up at home and por15 the frame. I'm in houston, the guy is up in college station. I wonder if it's a bit more expensive because he's using dustless blasting?

In Colorardo the $1200 is a very fair price. $1500 is pushing it a bit.

I'm not sure what dustless method is being used, bit I'm all for keeping sand out of the cab whenever possible. That stuff falls out of cracks for weeks. You have to really work hard to remove it all.

Good Luck

Here is good blasting info, this place does quality work.
http://www.classiccarblasting.com/choosing-a-blaster.html