Knoxville man upset over bad paint job on classic car

A car collector in Sevier County is disappointed with the quality of the paint recently applied to his 62-year-old Cadillac. Chuck Finazzo's car has been repainted twice in two years, but blisters, or bubbles, continue to pop up on the finish.

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[fleetwin]

You gotta be kidding me. Brought this classic to Maaco for painting. I have no words, at least none that can be said here

[mwh]

He wanted a $10k paint job but brought it to Maaco? Insane!

[jeffharkson]

Maaco??? For a classic Caddy? Someone please arrest this man for his negligence 😂

[joecap]

Maaco is to paint jobs, what McDonalds drive through is to fine dining😅

[ronyeahright]

Maaco for your classic car ?? Lmao. That's like going to Walmart to buy an engagement ring, and then having 7-Eleven cater the wedding.

[SOLDOZER]

The car was not stripped as the reporter claims. That would have cost over $3500 in labor alone. It was only stripped in certain areas to do minor bodywork and rock chips as you see on the receipt. You can clearly see in the photo the old lacquer paint is still on there. No modern urethane coatings are going to bond to that. It will always bubble and peel sooner or later no matter what you do or what primer you use. This is not a paint or Maaco issue. This is an issue of Cheap Chuck refusing to pay what it needs to be done properly and why Maaco ghosted him. IT HAS TO BE STRIPPED to bare metal.

[AndyF.]

$ 3500 paint job from Marco you get what you pay for. A real paint job would cost more like $ 10, 000 or more for a car that size .

[eugenerybalkin]

This is the best paint job Macco ever did probably.

[bobcortez]

The fact that this is news in this town means I want to live here, clearly this is a quiet, boring town.

[danslininger]

His first mistake was going to maaco and paying 3500 for a pint job that he EXPECTED to be a 20k show car paint job... what a tool.

[oldarkie]

A true car collector would never take a classic to this kind of body shop.

[jaylove]

The only way to fix that is to remove all the paint right down to the metal. It’s a major job. Repainting it won’t fix it, the bubbles will simply come back.

[brad]

I nearly busted out laughing when he said he took it to Macco. That’s the type of place you take your clapped ‘07 Honda Civic, not a classic car that you consider an “investment” 🤦‍♂️

[peterironrope]

You don't take a classic car to Maaco and receive a cheap paint job, but expect the car to look like it was a $8000 paint job!

[kellysrestorations.]

As someone who has been in the restoration industry for 40 years,
Thanks for the laugh!

[JoelRyanQuinn]

I bought a sandwich from Arby's the other day that wasn't very good. Maybe this news station can come do a full-length feature news story about it.

"Local man not happy with purchase, " hard-hitting stuff.

[awwzyea_roadster]

As an automotive painter, the old paint was definitely not stripped.

[JimV]

I was so ready to sympathize for this guy, and then I heard he took his classic car to Maaco. If you are dumb enough to do that and not do basic homework on shops before getting your car painted, I can't really feel bad for you. He deserves what he got.

[markkoranjr]

Good work ain’t cheap and cheap work ain’t good. For $3500 he’s lucky Maaco painted the entire car 😂

[theunluckyfrog]

Dude got a touch up and full paint for 1/4 of what it would normally be, im not sure what he expected 😭