Ray D
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Our Damon motorhome is just a year old, so not an issue at this time. May not own it long enough for this to become an issue, but if I do, nice looks would be an issue, for me.
I read a couple of threads, where the posters were asking about - discussing options - refinishing the outside of older RV s to make them more presentable. Or, repairing and modernizing the faded or damaged striping.
As I recall, prices for just about any re-paint or re-decal were pretty well up there. Our Damon supposedly has a special paint job, new from the factory that was in the thousands on the detailed list of included options. That was just for some upgrade, not the whole job. I don?t actually know what they did. Ours looks pretty much like the next one that comes along.
Get to the point, Ray!!! - - - - - :
Here?s the deal. Driving around town, here, I have suddenly become more aware of the City Bus System, Boise Urban Stages - ?BUS!? Every one of them is painted in great detail with advertising. It?s the whole bus, not just a banner on the side, just one advertiser. Even the windows are painted. (You can still see out.) The paint jobs, at least from a few feet away, appear to be of excellent quality. Some have photographs - some look like airbrushed artwork ???
Someone is paying for those paint jobs. Obviously, the advertisers are doing that. Are advertisers paying tens of thousands to paint an entire bus, with one ad, or has someone discovered a less expensive way to paint a bus? Is this an option, for an older RV? Some of those paint jobs look pretty nice. (Some of them, I wouldn?t want.)
I have a tough time imagining that the cost of that is justifiable in advertising benefit. Has to cost less than appearances would suggest!
I have also seen a few interstate truckers with very intricate artwork on their trucks. Paint job looks like it would be half of the cost of the truck, itself. Not factory Paint!
Anyone know anything about this? Anyone considered it? Or is my mind just blowing in the wind, as it occasionally does? ;D
Ray D
I read a couple of threads, where the posters were asking about - discussing options - refinishing the outside of older RV s to make them more presentable. Or, repairing and modernizing the faded or damaged striping.
As I recall, prices for just about any re-paint or re-decal were pretty well up there. Our Damon supposedly has a special paint job, new from the factory that was in the thousands on the detailed list of included options. That was just for some upgrade, not the whole job. I don?t actually know what they did. Ours looks pretty much like the next one that comes along.
Get to the point, Ray!!! - - - - - :
Here?s the deal. Driving around town, here, I have suddenly become more aware of the City Bus System, Boise Urban Stages - ?BUS!? Every one of them is painted in great detail with advertising. It?s the whole bus, not just a banner on the side, just one advertiser. Even the windows are painted. (You can still see out.) The paint jobs, at least from a few feet away, appear to be of excellent quality. Some have photographs - some look like airbrushed artwork ???
Someone is paying for those paint jobs. Obviously, the advertisers are doing that. Are advertisers paying tens of thousands to paint an entire bus, with one ad, or has someone discovered a less expensive way to paint a bus? Is this an option, for an older RV? Some of those paint jobs look pretty nice. (Some of them, I wouldn?t want.)
I have a tough time imagining that the cost of that is justifiable in advertising benefit. Has to cost less than appearances would suggest!
I have also seen a few interstate truckers with very intricate artwork on their trucks. Paint job looks like it would be half of the cost of the truck, itself. Not factory Paint!
Anyone know anything about this? Anyone considered it? Or is my mind just blowing in the wind, as it occasionally does? ;D
Ray D