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No, clear coating over your paint won't help
you. It will immortalize your problems, and will give you sort of a soft
luster that looks like you laid on old nitro celulose lacquer poorly and
have not rubbed it out yet. That is if it sticks at all. It may
remove what paint you still have, as it probably is not compatable with your
current paint.
While the materials are
definately not cheap, the expensive part of a paint job is the sanding,
cleaning, masking/part removal, and clean up after the spraying. This is
not highly skilled work, it is just work, and any person who is willing to do it
can do a satisfactory job if they take enough time and care. If you
use PPG's economy paint, and do not pick a color that takes red, your material
cost for base coat/clear coat would be somewhere in the $500 range.
If you only want me to spray it in my shop, I'd do the spray for
$100. I'd even let you bring it mostly finished and spend a couple days
doing the final work there and reassemble it again.
Now if you want to just
drop the car off and pick it up when it is done, I'll clean it, sand it, fill
little imperfections and pits, but not dents or rust holes, mask what I can't
easily remove, paint it, color sand it, and clean and reassemble it for about
$2,000, plus materials. If you are lookng for black or any other really
dark color, I may want a more than that if the sides are wavy, because that
takes a lot more filling and sanding with the block to make look right.
Light colors and especially metallics are more fogiving of slightly
rough sheetmetal.
John
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