paint job price

It's the body work that costs. The painting is the cheap part. A lumpy bondo job will be a lumpy shiny car after painted. If you do the metal work, the etching coat, the primer, the long boarding, the gap checks...that's 40-60 hours then 4 hours of paint. Have got friends who did one hundred percent of all bodywork and prime prepaint then look it to Earl Shibe, looked like a million bucks.