Had my 1961 Corvair painted signal yellow by Earl in 1968. I did needed body work my self beforehand. My brother and I washed and wet sanded the car and removed trim items before taking it in. It was a genuinely great paint job (no orange peel)!
I remember $99 paint jobs, in the early 80s. Primer was extra, I was told. I asked if you had-ta pay extra for an air compressor, or did monkey's just pour it on. Then the color choices were only 3, Red, yellow, or blue. Everything else was custom, or extra. Ended up going to Maico, for $199. Was worth the extra.
@whateve157 They said, "maybe your brother should fix it"? LOL. That's the way they seemed to me too. They really didn't care if they got customers or not. Probably why he's not in business anymore.
In 1967 I had him paint my 1960 Falcon, Competition Orange. I knew up front their process so I removed a lot of parts and did my own masking except for windows. I had prearranged with them and they helped me do a good job. Let me tell you that that car looked great when finished. I also think the price then was $19.95, but not sure. Ah, the good old days!
Yeah, I remember when it was $19.95! There was an Earl Scheib shop right off the Hollywood Fwy back in the 60's. In the late 80's I got my old Datsun 280Z painted a cool metallic gray but it rained on it the next day, before everything completely dried and cured, so there were spots everywhere on the finish. Looked way better that before though, especially from a distance! 😆
I had a car painted here in Lubbock. The ad was for 99.95, but I asked them about doing a regular paint job, masking, no body work. They charged me $149.00 and did a good job. We kept that car for another 5 years and it still looked good when sold. Not in business here any more.
I had my 1966 Corvair that started out Red (it was powdering as red used to do long ago!) painted dark blue! They did paint everything, including the bit of straw in my back bumper😊😊😊. I was very happy!
On New Year's Eve 1970, I had my seven year old Pontiac Tempest painted at an Earl Scheib paint plant, for $29.99! ( He ran a 'super-special', i.e. $19.99, but only for black or white, but I didn't want that!) It looked good, except it started to peel, on the hood! The manager refused to repaint it, so I sent a personal letter to Earl Scheib, at his Beverly Hills, Ca. Hdqts.& Scheib made the manager repaint it, to my satisfaction! Great Guy!
I grew up on a farm in northern Illinois. During the summer we would sometimes have guys from down south stop by that roamed the Midwest painting barns. I remember that southern drawl when the foreman was trying to convince us to hire his crew. They did not mask the windows. Said they would use a blade scraper to remove the overspray from the glass. These guys were the Earl Scheibs of barn painting.
I also remember the outfits that would paint barns if they could use them for advertising. Remember all the Rock City and Mail Pouch tobacco ads on barns?
What I miss are his 10x larger than life , backlit , smiling , full color pictures of Earl adorning the front of every shop . I lived in San Diego right across the street from one of his shops . He was the first thing I saw every morning and he was waiting when I returned home
I had a VW bug I had painted there in the early 80s ... I taped the windows myself removed the emblem me s an masked the duel exhaust tubes... I gave the tech 10tip before he did it an it came out amazing for 110 dollar ... Loved that car ...
I remember seeing Earl Scheib commercials in the 50's on local Detroit stations. As I remember, they were staples on Sunday afternoons. Good to see one again.
@@johnathandavis3693 yes but I think that sheriff John was on KTTV channel 11 at noon. my slightly older sister and me would come home for lunch and watch
I hah a 67 Dodge painted around 1975/6 after I removed the trim/badging and I wet sanded it. I think I paid $39.95 and had the door sills also painted. ($10.00 extra). They did a very good job, the car looked great.
There were/are three kinds of people that badmouth an Earl Scheib paint job. Snobs with $3k just lying around, professional painters that charge the first kind of person $3k, and people that can't paint who think painting a car is easy. But it is kind of funny how we all call a cheap paint job "an Earl Scheib paint job" now. Ol' Earl has been immortalized in gearhead lingo.
3k will not get your car painted today at any reputable shop. I do this for a living. Materials alone are $1500.00 for an average job. A better job would start around 5k for materials and labor and up from there. Bodywork and disassemble and reassemble extra.
Had a bodyshop in my area back in the 80's you did the prep work and masking, and supply the paint,thinner❤ they only charged $50.00,did a decent job on my CJ 5 .
No ups, No extras...LOL On my walk home from school, I'd look inside the building and see those red baking lights. It was pretty impressive to a 10 year old in 1972...😁
A friend of mine had a Rambler painted at Earl Scheib in Memphis. They wiped it down with thinner, and shot it. Didn't even remove the road tar from the rockers. Looked good from afar, but up close, it was shabby work.
He painted my 1967 VW metallic blue. It was $10 more for the metallic. I changed color from red. I had to paint the inside surfaces, the dash and door jams myself - a lot of work. I painted them black and they looked great. It was a very nice paint job for $39.95. Though I didn't think about all of the red elsewhere on the car. Today I would stay with red!
Growing up in the late 60’s, my first car was a 1964 Ford Falcon. Earl painted it twice (each time for $29.99) for me & did an excellent job both times. Now living in San Diego in 2024, I can barely get 6 gallons of gas for $29.99.
@@AntiZOGZone Nice try, but I have been doing this stuff since the 80s. Clear coat does not have to have that characteristic. Only shit paint jobs with shit prep done with shit materials and shit technique do that. I have never had a car exhibit that behavior. My 70 Buick didn't I had that car painted in 1992 and sold it in 2020. My 1997 Buick Riviera did not do it, had it from 2000 to 2006. My '66 Corvette was painted in 2017 and isn't doing it. My 2007 and 2008 Pontiacs didn't do it, had one new off the lot for five years, and have owned the latest one for the last five years. My 2012 Chevy didn't do it, had it from 2012 to 2020. On the other hand, single stage paint had it's own problems, and things like runs and even sags were just tolerated back in the day. You're off in left field.
@@bbb462cid single stage.....runs and sags......not if you know how to paint......single stage ,less $ for materials,done in 2 hours as opposed to 5-6 hours for clear coat.......today's urethane single stage enamels are far superior to the old alkyd enamels.......but not as "forgiveing" as base/clear.....just my old fart opinion.......oh yeah......I hate buffing !
I got my car painted at Earl Scheib in Norfolk, VA in about 1972. They did no prep at all. Didn't even remove the license plates, but they did mask over them, leaving the original color under the plates. They painted the wheels without masking the tires, then spay painted the tires black! The paint started to peel off about a year later. You get what you pay for.
I spent two weeks washing, polishing and detailing my 62 sunroof bug. Left it home for a week and " surprise" a nice Scheib job. It was at least 1/8 " thick. Didn't stick to my freshly carnauba waxed ride.😮
Earl er his associates at the El Cajon Earl Scheib location, painted my 1968 Toyota Corona 4 door sedan a new color - burgundy over it original cream color in about 1982. Gone was $29.95, by 1982 it was $59.95 but the color change was a $30 upcharge so $89.95 + tax. Thus, $94.95 total and with the $5 left over from my $100 I hit up the Alberto's Taco Shop #12 and got their 12 rolled Tacos with Guac & Sour Cream for $4.50. Just a snapshot of life from 1982 the year I graduated High School in San Diego / El Cajon. PS The paint job was quite decent value for the modest $$$ price !
When I was a kid my friend's father had a 65 Mustang painted at Earl Scheib. When he took the car to inspection it failed because the front turn signals were painted over.
As the years went on, the commercial had the same tagline "I'll paint any car for $ __.__" except they had to dub in the "adjusted for inflation" pricing. Last I recall it was "Any car for $99.95". I think that was 1981 or so
Back in the early 70s I took my 1967 Impala in to a local body shop for an estimate to paint the driver’s door. $300. I then went to the local Earl Schieb. Any car, any color $49.95. The color choices were limited at that price. Chose yellow. The paint job really was well done and no overspray. Only downside was that in two years the yellow faded to off white.
When I was a kid in Houston during the 60’s, there were several of these paint shops in town. Thinking the price was 19.95$ then. My dad took our car here to paint. Picked up the car and it was painted well, nice shine but the small trim and Chevrolet lettering were painted over. Dad said it would cost more to take the time to tape these small parts over. The paint job lasted for several years and looked good when we traded it in for a newer car. Side note, I had one wheel well opening trim painted for my Ford truck. Part was about 2” wide and 36” long, brand new part. Cost me 149$…
A few friends got Scheib paint jobs from the Buford Highway location in Chamblee, GA in the '80s. They painted over dirt. If you wanted any color blue, you got turquoise. If you wanted any color green, you got turquoise. If you wanted red, you got light maroon.
I had the Scheib's in East Point, GA paint my '67 Impala in 1979. I had to pay extra for the medium blue metallic paint. They parked it outside before it dried, and dust settled in the paint. After it cured a few weeks we were able to fix that, and it looked pretty good.
I'm in my 60's. This commercial was on CONSTANTLY, all through the 70's. I asked my mom about it and she said: "Yeah -have you ever seen an Earl Scheib paint job?"
I remember Earl, my grandma had a fender bender so my step grandfather brought her car there. They filled the dent with Bondo, repainted the whole car and half the trim. Six months later the paint started peeling off. 😂
I worked for this guy back in the day. He was one of the biggest crooks around. Yeah he would paint your car, your tires, your windows, your hubcaps, your headlights and taillights , all for 29.95…
Wait, they are painting over the chrome name badge of that Buick at around the 30 second mark! You get what you paid for. I had my 69 Falcon painted at the local Scheib when I was in college. Good enough for me back then.
Earl Schieb gave the rights to use his name to one of his employees. That single shop is called Schieb Paint and Body. It is still there in El Cajon, CA on Main St. It is still the best price around, but it has gone up a bit. I had my Toyota done for $1200. It came out great. Better than the $5000 the other shops quoted me. Only problem was one of the workers stole my knife out of my car. I should have known better than to leave a nice folding knife in my car while strangers worked on it. Otherwise it was great.
My dad used to work evenings at the local Earl Scheib, late 60s, early 70s... He was a Line Mechanic at the big downtown Cadillac dealer in the daytime and would leave there at 6:00pm and walk down the street to paint cars until Midnight. He'd usually do that for three or four nights per week. Even though I was just a little kid, I knew a decent paint job when I saw one... And I can't remember ever seeing a bad one come out of Scheib's back then. Y'all have to remember that even as far back as the early Nineties, this country and everything in it it was TOP NOTCH... Nearly everyone was working and were happy and PROUD to do the best possible work they were capable of doing. But that's just about when the BigWigs started on the greed thing... Which eventually forced everyone else to jump on the bandwagon, or jump off and fend for themselves. It's true... We really were GREAT at one time. But allowing The Powers That Be to trick us into indentured servitude was our downfall.
"Miracle Auto Painting" went out of business during the great recession of 2008. They were still doing enamel paintjobs for $199.00. I got one on a former PG&E service truck just before the sh*t hit the economic fan.
@@2steaksandwiches665 You got me early in the morning, so I must apologize. What I read was “after paying $146 for 5 plastic bags”. My mistake. It is entirely possible to pay $146 for five bags of groceries. I am more than able to admit when I make a mistake. I stand corrected.
I grew up in Los Angeles watching his commercials. I think with his original starting TV price was at $29.95. My grandmother had her 63 Nova painted by Earl in the early 70’s for $49.95 if memory serves me correctly. Can’t remember where they’re price ended up, if and when they finally closed shop.
That was well known. They had more expensive work available, but the advertised special was quick and cheap. Another poster mentioned that he did his own prep work and then got the "special" and was very pleased. That was the key.
You could wash the paint job off with a garden hose. Earl was the late night TV joke factory of his era. The hook in this marketing was that when you went in for the paint job, they always found dozens of "areas that needed repair before it can be painted". You paid through the nose for some high school kid to sand down a rust spot.
Had my 1961 Corvair painted signal yellow by Earl in 1968. I did needed body work my self beforehand. My brother and I washed and wet sanded the car and removed trim items before taking it in. It was a genuinely great paint job (no orange peel)!
Grandparents had their '63 Fairlane wagon painted in '71. Was a good job from Earl Scheib.
He gave the consumer what they wanted.
The paint job was decent for the price.
Even bumper painted 😂
Leave the windows down and we’ll do the interior to!
Indeed he did
@@mondocjenson-dy8zd Ya, they didn't spend much time masking.
I got an Earl Scheib paint job years ago. It was a pretty nice paint job for the money. I wish we had deals like that today !
He was all over late night Chicago shows: “any car any kind $99.95” in the 70’s
I remember $99 paint jobs, in the early 80s. Primer was extra, I was told. I asked if you had-ta pay extra for an air compressor, or did monkey's just pour it on. Then the color choices were only 3, Red, yellow, or blue. Everything else was custom, or extra. Ended up going to Maico, for $199. Was worth the extra.
I remember well.
@whateve157 They said, "maybe your brother should fix it"? LOL. That's the way they seemed to me too. They really didn't care if they got customers or not. Probably why he's not in business anymore.
“No ups and no extras.”
Today it would be only black, gray, or white. :(
In 1967 I had him paint my 1960 Falcon, Competition Orange. I knew up front their process so I removed a lot of parts and did my own masking except for windows. I had prearranged with them and they helped me do a good job. Let me tell you that that car looked great when finished. I also think the price then was $19.95, but not sure. Ah, the good old days!
He painted your light orange also.
@@glennjohnso310 actually, I had removed the lights, stripped her down to just street legal. They were only a mile from our house.
Yeah, I remember when it was $19.95! There was an Earl Scheib shop right off the Hollywood Fwy back in the 60's. In the late 80's I got my old Datsun 280Z painted a cool metallic gray but it rained on it the next day, before everything completely dried and cured, so there were spots everywhere on the finish. Looked way better that before though, especially from a distance! 😆
My friend had a 69 falcon orange with a white vinyl top. Guess what color the vinyl top was after the paint job.🤣😂🤣😂🤣
I remember the ads that promoted the $19.95 paint job, so that's probably what you got!
I had a car painted here in Lubbock. The ad was for 99.95, but I asked them about doing a regular paint job, masking, no body work. They charged me $149.00 and did a good job. We kept that car for another 5 years and it still looked good when sold. Not in business here any more.
I want all my body work done for $10.00. Thank you Earl.
I remember him & his comercials. " In by 9...out by 5". Used to be a shop 15 min. from me. 🙏❤😊
I worked for him in 67.We painted my 1937 Cord with remnants from 5 cans of enamel mixed to match the original green .
I had a buddy in high school that got one of those $29 paint jobs. He lived on a muddy road. They just painted over the mud.
What a legend! It was great reliving an old memory.
Earl didn't even charge extra for painting your windows and lights.
No he didn’t. My friend got a ticket for red front turn signals
yep, and looks like he didn't charge for painting the Buick Emblem as the video shows.
They painted right over the chrome BUICK letters on the hood of that '61 in the commercial. LOL!
more honest than anyone now in 2024
I had my 1966 Corvair that started out Red (it was powdering as red used to do long ago!) painted dark blue! They did paint everything, including the bit of straw in my back bumper😊😊😊. I was very happy!
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Put it back.
On New Year's Eve 1970, I had my seven year old Pontiac Tempest painted at an Earl Scheib paint plant,
for $29.99! ( He ran a 'super-special', i.e. $19.99, but only for black or white, but I didn't want that!) It looked
good, except it started to peel, on the hood! The manager refused to repaint it, so I sent a personal letter to
Earl Scheib, at his Beverly Hills, Ca. Hdqts.& Scheib made the manager repaint it, to my satisfaction! Great Guy!
You got a damn good paint job. And no BS.
I grew up on a farm in northern Illinois. During the summer we would sometimes have guys from down south stop by that roamed the Midwest painting barns. I remember that southern drawl when the foreman was trying to convince us to hire his crew. They did not mask the windows. Said they would use a blade scraper to remove the overspray from the glass. These guys were the Earl Scheibs of barn painting.
Those guys were Travelers. Descended from Irish Travelers. They do barn painting and seal coating. Some are on the up and up. Some not so much.
I also remember the outfits that would paint barns if they could use them for advertising. Remember all the Rock City and Mail Pouch tobacco ads on barns?
What I miss are his 10x larger than life , backlit , smiling , full color pictures of Earl adorning the front of every shop . I lived in San Diego right across the street from one of his shops . He was the first thing I saw every morning and he was waiting when I returned home
I remember this, I must be old.
I had a VW bug I had painted there in the early 80s ... I taped the windows myself removed the emblem me s an masked the duel exhaust tubes... I gave the tech 10tip before he did it an it came out amazing for 110 dollar ... Loved that car ...
I remember seeing Earl Scheib commercials in the 50's on local Detroit stations. As I remember, they were staples on Sunday afternoons. Good to see one again.
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
I can remember his ads on KCOP channel 13 back in 1969 here in Los Angeles.
A Chris-Craft station!
@@LMcCain-c3c yes with the logo with 13 in the center
Hey do you remember Hobo Kelly and Sherriff John? I was 7 in 69...
@@LMcCain-c3c Gilligan's Island and Hogan's Heroes EVERY night....
@@johnathandavis3693 yes but I think that sheriff John was on KTTV channel 11 at noon. my slightly older sister and me would come home for lunch and watch
I hah a 67 Dodge painted around 1975/6 after I removed the trim/badging and I wet sanded it. I think I paid $39.95 and had the door sills also painted. ($10.00 extra). They did a very good job, the car looked great.
I remember these commercials from LA in the late 60s. Earl Scheib and Muntz Stereo.
Had my car painted by them in 1962, (1954 Chevy) it looked great
I had my 1965 Chevy II wagon repainted there. I was in high school and did the prep myself.
Master craftsman, as the guy wails away on the body with a hammer.
If you do the prep you get an excellent paint job. They have some of the best shooters around.
There were/are three kinds of people that badmouth an Earl Scheib paint job. Snobs with $3k just lying around, professional painters that charge the first kind of person $3k, and people that can't paint who think painting a car is easy. But it is kind of funny how we all call a cheap paint job "an Earl Scheib paint job" now. Ol' Earl has been immortalized in gearhead lingo.
Let's be honest, Earl Scheib's paint job was better than any of the Big Three Auto Manufacturers' paint jobs.😂😂
I'm not knocking Earls paint jobs but to say they were better than the big threes paint jobs is ridiculous.
3k will not get your car painted today at any reputable shop. I do this for a living. Materials alone are $1500.00 for an average job. A better job would start around 5k for materials and labor and up from there. Bodywork and disassemble and reassemble extra.
You forgot one. Those of us who took a car to Earl Scheib once, and after that used Maaco or a local independent shop. LOL
I had a 1978 Fiat Mirafiori that I repainted at Earl Shieb's shop in Roanoke, VA. in 1985. They did a good job for $ 99,99!
Had a bodyshop in my area back in the 80's you did the prep work and masking, and supply the paint,thinner❤ they only charged $50.00,did a decent job on my CJ 5 .
I remember him and Cal Worthington...with his dog, Spot.
There was also a 19.95 job where only a little prep and paint were used.
No ups, No extras...LOL On my walk home from school, I'd look inside the building and see those red baking lights. It was pretty impressive to a 10 year old in 1972...😁
We leave the windows down and do the interior for free
😂
Why not rolled up so they're also tinted?
😂😂😂
A friend of mine had a Rambler painted at Earl Scheib in Memphis. They wiped it down with thinner, and shot it. Didn't even remove the road tar from the rockers. Looked good from afar, but up close, it was shabby work.
He painted my 1967 VW metallic blue. It was $10 more for the metallic. I changed color from red. I had to paint the inside surfaces, the dash and door jams myself - a lot of work. I painted them black and they looked great. It was a very nice paint job for $39.95. Though I didn't think about all of the red elsewhere on the car. Today I would stay with red!
My brother got a 29.95$ earl scheib paint special back in the 60's and it looked it.
Growing up in the late 60’s, my first car was a 1964 Ford Falcon. Earl painted it twice (each time for $29.99) for me & did an excellent job both times. Now living in San Diego in 2024, I can barely get 6 gallons of gas for $29.99.
Oven baked orange peel finish! Today, you can still get a cheap paint job for 2995 (no decimals).
What people forget is that factory paint wasn't terribly good in the 1960s to begin with
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@@bbb462cidit was better than the clear coat they have now. it gets sunburned and peels off.
@@AntiZOGZone Nice try, but I have been doing this stuff since the 80s. Clear coat does not have to have that characteristic. Only shit paint jobs with shit prep done with shit materials and shit technique do that. I have never had a car exhibit that behavior. My 70 Buick didn't I had that car painted in 1992 and sold it in 2020. My 1997 Buick Riviera did not do it, had it from 2000 to 2006. My '66 Corvette was painted in 2017 and isn't doing it. My 2007 and 2008 Pontiacs didn't do it, had one new off the lot for five years, and have owned the latest one for the last five years. My 2012 Chevy didn't do it, had it from 2012 to 2020. On the other hand, single stage paint had it's own problems, and things like runs and even sags were just tolerated back in the day. You're off in left field.
@@bbb462cid single stage.....runs and sags......not if you know how to paint......single stage ,less $ for materials,done in 2 hours as opposed to 5-6 hours for clear coat.......today's urethane single stage enamels are far superior to the old alkyd enamels.......but not as "forgiveing" as base/clear.....just my old fart opinion.......oh yeah......I hate buffing !
I totally remember this.
I had it done and it was absolutely worth $29.95.
I got my car painted at Earl Scheib in Norfolk, VA in about 1972. They did no prep at all. Didn't even remove the license plates, but they did mask over them, leaving the original color under the plates. They painted the wheels without masking the tires, then spay painted the tires black! The paint started to peel off about a year later. You get what you pay for.
They were the days 😊
Amazing story
Yep. Flipped a few wrecks with their paint job back in the day. Always checked and taped the gas cap though.
Had them paint our car. Instantly increase the value of the car. Sold our car 2000. Over cost.
. paint job was 99.00
I spent two weeks washing, polishing and detailing my 62 sunroof bug.
Left it home for a week and " surprise" a nice Scheib job. It was at least 1/8 " thick. Didn't stick to my freshly carnauba waxed ride.😮
Earl er his associates at the El Cajon Earl Scheib location, painted my 1968 Toyota Corona 4 door sedan a new color - burgundy over it original cream color in about 1982.
Gone was $29.95, by 1982 it was $59.95 but the color change was a $30 upcharge so $89.95 + tax.
Thus, $94.95 total and with the $5 left over from my $100 I hit up the Alberto's Taco Shop #12 and got their 12 rolled Tacos with Guac & Sour Cream for $4.50.
Just a snapshot of life from 1982 the year I graduated High School in San Diego / El Cajon.
PS The paint job was quite decent value for the modest
$$$ price !
I used them 2x, for the money expectations can’t be too high
I remember here in Tampa back in the early 60s we saw that ad alot on our 13 in black and white.
As a teenager in the sixties, he dressed up my 1959 TR3 for…you guessed it…$29.95. I was thrilled.
Notice, cars emblems weren't taped off and 9 times out of 10 there was over spray on the exhaust pipes
When I was a kid my friend's father had a 65 Mustang painted at Earl Scheib. When he took the car to inspection it failed because the front turn signals were painted over.
@@MrSloika picky picky picky .
And they don't charge you for the extra paint 😅
I had a bronco painted by them in the 90s. $300 and it looked pretty good.
I remember these commercials, LOL.
I remember back in the day sending my 67 Rambler for a paint job and light metal work for $39.95.
Co worker had his 62 Chevy painted there years ago,descent paint job,in by 9 out by 5😊.
Earl worked at a gas station changing oil and tires after high school. He became successful despite the Great Depression.
As the years went on, the commercial had the same tagline "I'll paint any car for $ __.__" except they had to dub in the "adjusted for inflation" pricing. Last I recall it was "Any car for $99.95". I think that was 1981 or so
Back in the early 70s I took my 1967 Impala in to a local body shop for an estimate to paint the driver’s door. $300. I then went to the local Earl Schieb. Any car, any color $49.95. The color choices were limited at that price. Chose yellow. The paint job really was well done and no overspray. Only downside was that in two years the yellow faded to off white.
I loved my '67 Impala, also painted by Scheib. I paid extra for medium blue metallic, close to the original GM color.
Ah!! The good old days!!👍
When I was a kid in Houston during the 60’s, there were several of these paint shops in town. Thinking the price was 19.95$ then.
My dad took our car here to paint. Picked up the car and it was painted well, nice shine but the small trim and Chevrolet lettering were painted over. Dad said it would cost more to take the time to tape these small parts over.
The paint job lasted for several years and looked good when we traded it in for a newer car.
Side note, I had one wheel well opening trim painted for my Ford truck. Part was about 2” wide and 36” long, brand new part. Cost me 149$…
Had a 1959 VW bug painted in ‘69. The job was decent with some over spray but the net effect was good and we were happy.
The exact quote was ‘we’ll paint any car any color for $29.95.’That add was beat into my brain.
That’s quality,at an Earl Shieb price.
A few friends got Scheib paint jobs from the Buford Highway location in Chamblee, GA in the '80s. They painted over dirt. If you wanted any color blue, you got turquoise. If you wanted any color green, you got turquoise. If you wanted red, you got light maroon.
I had the Scheib's in East Point, GA paint my '67 Impala in 1979. I had to pay extra for the medium blue metallic paint. They parked it outside before it dried, and dust settled in the paint. After it cured a few weeks we were able to fix that, and it looked pretty good.
Painted my 1960 Buick.
In 1974 my grand father had his 1969 Mercury painted by Earl Schibe. A year later I helped Gramps hand wash the paint right off the hood.
Didn't Earl tell you "don't wash for the first 2 years so the paint has time to dry".......
They didn’t use primer.
Whatever you didn’t tape up was painted over! I had some chrome on a 64’ Impala that I spent hours getting paint off of. 😂🤣
A better time to live!
I'm in my 60's. This commercial was on CONSTANTLY, all through the 70's. I asked my mom about it and she said: "Yeah -have you ever seen an Earl Scheib paint job?"
Back in the day when the chrome was thick and the girls were straight
yep, now a reach around is a crap shoot.
You might get a one armed bandit or a glory hole. The odds are even at 50/50
There were just as many lesbians by population percentage then as now. Only difference now is most don’t hide it
@@richwinds7179😂🤣😅
and when girls were girls
I remember Earl, my grandma had a fender bender so my step grandfather brought her car there.
They filled the dent with Bondo, repainted the whole car and half the trim. Six months later the paint started peeling off. 😂
You know, after seeing cars wit primer and rest and bondo, its a good thing Earl had deals..
Great affordable paint jobs!
I worked for this guy back in the day. He was one of the biggest crooks around. Yeah he would paint your car, your tires, your windows, your hubcaps, your headlights and taillights , all for 29.95…
I remember those adds during the cubs games .
Master craftsmen.
Wait, they are painting over the chrome name badge of that Buick at around the 30 second mark! You get what you paid for.
I had my 69 Falcon painted at the local Scheib when I was in college. Good enough for me back then.
Back in the youngish days of the web, I remember smiling at the handle URL Scheib.
I always heard they didn't mask things off too good.
You heard right
Earl Schieb gave the rights to use his name to one of his employees. That single shop is called Schieb Paint and Body. It is still there in El Cajon, CA on Main St. It is still the best price around, but it has gone up a bit. I had my Toyota done for $1200. It came out great. Better than the $5000 the other shops quoted me. Only problem was one of the workers stole my knife out of my car. I should have known better than to leave a nice folding knife in my car while strangers worked on it. Otherwise it was great.
If the knife cost you less than $3800, you're still out in front
@@TheKnobCalledTone. lol, IKR.
My dad used to work evenings at the local Earl Scheib, late 60s, early 70s... He was a Line Mechanic at the big downtown Cadillac dealer in the daytime and would leave there at 6:00pm and walk down the street to paint cars until Midnight.
He'd usually do that for three or four nights per week.
Even though I was just a little kid, I knew a decent paint job when I saw one... And I can't remember ever seeing a bad one come out of Scheib's back then.
Y'all have to remember that even as far back as the early Nineties, this country and everything in it it was TOP NOTCH... Nearly everyone was working and were happy and PROUD to do the best possible work they were capable of doing.
But that's just about when the BigWigs started on the greed thing... Which eventually forced everyone else to jump on the bandwagon, or jump off and fend for themselves.
It's true... We really were GREAT at one time. But allowing The Powers That Be to trick us into indentured servitude was our downfall.
Politicians sold us out, to gain their wealth. It’s a rare thing to see Anything, not made in ‘Asia.’
Looked like quality cars! 😊
"Miracle Auto Painting" went out of business during the great recession of 2008. They were still doing enamel paintjobs for $199.00. I got one on a former PG&E service truck just before the sh*t hit the economic fan.
His most memorable commercial was "I'll paint any car any time for...." I forget the amount.
They had a limited amount of colors available and you could always tell by the color when someone had their car painted there.
That includes painting over all your trim, tires, glass, vinyl top,grills, exhaust, of course orange peel after car is painted!!
Worked with a guy that got the $29 paint job on his truck . There was a piece of rope in the bed and they painted over it .
I had bought ten gallons of gas for $38, after paying $146 for 5 plastic bags of groceries.
Stupid people don’t always reveal themselves so publicly. Thank you for your candour.
@@roymcgaw7431how is what he admitted stupid?
@@2steaksandwiches665 You got me early in the morning, so I must apologize. What I read was “after paying $146 for 5 plastic bags”. My mistake. It is entirely possible to pay $146 for five bags of groceries. I am more than able to admit when I make a mistake. I stand corrected.
Go cry to your orange Qmaster
@@roymcgaw7431Must not live in Colorado because you can’t get plastic grocery bags!
Honestly the guy was kind of a legend!
I grew up in Los Angeles watching his commercials. I think with his original starting TV price was at $29.95. My grandmother had her 63 Nova painted by Earl in the early 70’s for $49.95 if memory serves me correctly. Can’t remember where they’re price ended up, if and when they finally closed shop.
Seen a GM assembly line from the early '60s where they did not have respirators while doing the painting!
I remember. Nice buick too.
I laughed when they painted over the chrome lettering!
In this commercial they painted right over the Buick lettering 😳😂
I saw that too!
That was well known. They had more expensive work available, but the advertised special was quick and cheap. Another poster mentioned that he did his own prep work and then got the "special" and was very pleased. That was the key.
You could wash the paint job off with a garden hose. Earl was the late night TV joke factory of his era. The hook in this marketing was that when you went in for the paint job, they always found dozens of "areas that needed repair before it can be painted". You paid through the nose for some high school kid to sand down a rust spot.
I was shocked when I visited Germany in 1987 and saw a Earl Scheib shop there