How to Find a Good Body/Paint Shop?

People who do restoration work on the side are few and far between these days but they are out there. They seem busy and some are picky on their clients. There are even less legit restoration shops and they often specialize in the high dollar restoration work and take a year or more to even start on a new project. The labor hours required to do the panel fitment, gaps, prime, block multiple times ensuring a good paint job are steep and in my opinion not affordable for most people nowadays. I found 3 people to paint my car (I did the body work) through word of mouth. Two of them bailed for various personal reasons (seems epidemic). I've also run across a few cars in body shop purgatory along the way. In the end the fellow who painted my car did mostly collision work but did mine because I was a friend of a friend and he had a passion for the old Mopars....hard to find.