Agree on paint and body being the most expensive. I suspect a part of that is that the vast majority of paint and body shops only do insurance and collision work now. When I was ready I went to six P&B shops I had heard good things about and none of them did "total repaints." I hauled my Duster almost two hours away to a guy who had a big shop. He normally didnt do repaints, but he's a car buff and I convinced him to take on my project. To keep costs down, I told him he could work on it when collision business was slow. He put one of their older guys - who still takes a lot of pride in his work - on the body work. He had it 4 months and there was more bodywork than I expected, but it looks good - and it should for $15K.