bead blast sand substitute

I am restoring a 65 barracuda. I took it to a local high end auto restoration shop and had them soda blast it and put it in epoxy primer. If I had all the glass out, interior and drive train out, a complete inside, outside, and underside would have been about $1700. As it stands, the outside, inner fenders and trunkwell was $1000 soda blasted and epoxy primed. Dropped it off on Monday, picked it up on Friday. In my opinion, it was worth every penny!