Paint mega-disaster (long rant)

It is looking good. I'm happy you seem to have found some piece with the amount of money you have spent on your car.
Not to rub salt in anyones wounds but why are you guys taking your restos to collision shops? You don't go to a dentist for a eye exam do you? They both have the title of Dr. though.
I operate a auto body restoration shop that would occasionally do a colision job for my restoration customer. I don't even get into upostery or engines, there are people who do that. I concentrate on what I do best, body and paint.
I did a Superbird a couple years ago for right around $23,000.00 If you go to www.carsofcomfrey.com I have some pics of it. Your Signet should have cost under $10,000.00 to do the body and paint if you were assembling it yourself.
Who knows, maybe I am too cheap and am screwing myself but I have a half year of backlog and can sleep at night.
Anyone have a clean A-body they want painted for $30,000. If you insist I can live with it :-D
Hope the assembly goes smooth for you! I say that is the most stressfull part of a resto. Trying to get that (name the piece) on without chipping or scratching anything.