If the body is good then the mechanical's can be repaired , changed. Because the body takes so much time in repairs preparing smoothing filler out for paint thats my pain body finish.
"Bodymen" take so much time, we used to churn a turd out every month to sell at the shows and rarely had more than 3 days of paint and body. I had a bodyman tell me once that they had to hold the car long enough to justify the expense of the paint job. He said if you charge a guy $5000 to paint his car and finish it in 3 or 4 days he will feel like you hacked it, but if you hold it a year and then only work on it for 3 or 4 days he will feel like he got his moneys worth. I always tell him I am going to pay him the same way he does the job so if it takes him a year to paint it then it will take me a year to pay.
