Collision shop for a repaint? Just don't do it.

I've been doing body/paint work for 26 years. The best advice I can give someone is "don't bring a restoration job to a collision shop and vice-versa". They are two different animals.

I've done my share of restoration work. That's all I did for about 6 years. I'm an honest guy that does good quality work, for half the labor rate. I used to charge $35-45 an hour, depending on what I was doing.

I made my customer's buy there own products with my direction.(always used PPG products). That seemed to help when the bill came due.

I gave every customer a timeline, and a price that it would never exceed. And I did a damn good job on both of those two things.

I did learn one thing by doing restoration's, most everyone thinks they can get a show quality job for $3k, just saying, that's not gunna happen! LOL!

That is the reason I got back into collision work. That's where the money is. I would rather be doing restoration work, but I gotta make a living!