Any tips for earning extra cash?

[landshark]

For that kind of money, I would seriously consider buying the equipment you need and some old junk cars for a couple hundred bucks to practice on. You could even recoup the money you spent on the tools by doing some paint jobs on the side.

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Serious. A garage paint booth is not that hard to build and after a couple of practice cars you can get pretty decent. A good paint job on a car isn't about the paint. It's about the prep work.

Painting a car is 90% body prep, 10% painting.

Search several classic car forums, most have at least 1 or 2 guys who have built the full garage paint booth. And there are several places that sell the tools/equipment online as well.

 

[Norselord]

Painting a car is 90% body prep, 10% painting.

Search several classic car forums, most have at least 1 or 2 guys who have built the full garage paint booth. And there are several places that sell the tools/equipment online as well.

A) The wagon is too long for most home garages -- definitely too long for mine
B) I thought the cost of learning and acquiring the tools might be less than the cost of having the paint job done by another -- but I don't know if I could ever approach the quality of work that someone with decades of experience would have.

Here is my reality check from station wagon owners:
http://www.stationwagonforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24977