Collision, custom paint and full restorations — cars, RVs and boats. Larry Roberts and Ray Upham have 85 years of paint and body work between them, and the paint and parts that go on your vehicle carry a lifetime manufacturer warranty.
What we do
Most shops pick one of these. We do all three, and the same two owners have their hands on every job.
Somebody hit you, or you hit something. We straighten it, replace what can't be saved, and match the paint so the repair disappears. We do insurance work every day and we'll deal with your adjuster for you.
Classic cars and trucks, muscle cars and one-off colors. Stripped, straightened, sprayed and cut back until the reflection runs straight down the panel.
The big stuff most body shops turn away. Motorhomes, toterhomes, trailers and boats — full repaints and multi-color graphics, in a booth built to take them.
The booth
We spray in a Blowtherm booth. Air comes in filtered through the full length of the ceiling and gets pulled out past the vehicle, so dust and overspray move away from the panel instead of settling into your clear. It takes a lifted crew cab with room to walk all the way around it — which is why the coaches and the boats end up here and not in somebody's two-car bay.
Start to finish
Same car, same shop, photographed twenty months apart. Nothing on this site is a stock photo — every vehicle here was painted at 1230 W. Market Street.
In the booth
A two-tone is not one job, it's two — mask, spray, cure, unmask, mask again. It is slow and there is no way to fake it. That is what you are paying a body shop for.
Why bring it here
Body shops all say the same things. These are the ones we can actually stand behind.
About the shop
Larry Roberts and Ray Upham opened Larry's Paint & Body on West Market Street in 1998 and have run it together ever since — 85 years of paint and body work between them. It is a full-service shop: collision and frame work on a Tuesday, a classic going into the booth on a Wednesday, a motorcoach on a Thursday. Same building, same hands, whatever rolls in.
We serve Rockport, Fulton, Aransas Pass, Ingleside, Portland and the rest of the Coastal Bend. Estimates are free, we work with every insurance company, and the paint and parts we use carry a lifetime manufacturer warranty.
Everything we handle
Get an estimate
Estimates are free. Send the year, make and model and what you need doing — or just call and bring it by. If it's an insurance claim, say so and we'll take it from there with your adjuster.
Find us
Look for the tan office and the open drive-through bay on West Market Street. Free estimates — call ahead or just pull in.
