looking for info websites, emails, phone #'s for a good paint shops where I can send my boats.

Did you check out your LOCAL body shops? I do paint real cars,bikes and boats for aliving for 19 years. I painted my boats.next week I'm posting my knewly painted Miss Blueangel 1/12 hydro.It used to be the Miss Bud with a.21 and long scoop and V tail mod That I'd done to it.

I can,t wait to see her Misshydro. I will be geting my 55 Shock wave back from the paint shop soon or later and I,l put some pics up of her as well.

Hay Budman!! Got the decals on her tonight.Dang she looks awsome!!!! You guys will drop yours jaws when you see this boat!! I will also send pics the the US Navy,There jaws will drop too!!LOL I got to get the US Navy decals cut for it too!!Plus I got to find the Navy logals for it too!! I'll try to post them in the next two or three days! I'm having computer proublems,going to have a friend help me post them. Oh I will post pics of Miss Blueangel on the jet post and see what the jets boys think of it!!

I've had good luck using a local body shop. The guy that painted it was kind of excited about doing it and went nuts when I brought it back in finished. He charged me $150.00 and was only supposed to put on the main color but ended up by doing a little finish work thewn after the main color, threw on a clear-coat for me and baked the finish.
Dean Wrges at Specialty Auto Body in the St. Loius area is one of the top boat painters around but he isn't cheap. His prices start at $275.00 plus return shipping for a very basic paint job but Dean can't do anything simple as he has to add subtle things to add a little extra bling to them. He does all of the show boats for Aeromarine and the pix in their ads don't do the boats justice. He's also done custom bikes that have graced the covers of almost every biker magazine.
It's just a matter of how much that you want to spend.

Dang Ron!! I dont charge that much for a paint job!![>:]I'd wouldve charged you 75-100 to do your boat.And No Ron I'm not trying to drum up business.Just cant beleve how much shops are charging to do a basic to slite mod paint jobs on these boats.[>:]

Just giving comparisons.

I wonder how much Orange County Chopers would charge for a coustom paint job on a 55 Shock wave? Prob more than i make in a year.

They have Nubs grafics do there paint work.Just curious!What paint job are you look to have done on your boat ,Budman?[>:]

The paint job is allready done Misshydro. Its a Texas flag draped over the frunt of a ShockWave 55. The reason I have not posted the pics yet is because I have alot of work to do instaiiing all the hardware and then I,m going to hire a pinstiper to do some old sckool pinstiping with paint not tape. I have a guy down here that does anodizing too so I,m getting some of the engine parts done. I would say within a mounth she should realy be sparking like a dimond. Some guys put all thier time into making thier boats fast. I like to make mine shine.

I like to do both!! I'd took my Newly painted Miss Blueangel this morining to church!!Man the people was loving it up big time!!! My minster who's has a real boat wanted to take my boat out on a spin!! I won a motor on ebay for 36 dollars is a thundertiger pro.21 will be in my boat for now unitl I get a sportworks.26 and BBmodSS is going to do the motor mods for me!! I'll be posting pics this tue!!!