Is There An Honest Auto/Body/Painter In SoCal?

I don't know what it is about car painters, but they are some of the most unreliable, bullshitting,sheisters I have ever met.
Hard to take any of them on their word. Must be the fumes. :)
On dumb luck I met the guy who painted my 70 Dart, and he did a fantastic job. Turns out he was a ****** addict, and passed away a couple years after painting it.