I got screwed REALLY bad on a paint job myself after saving for 3 years to do it. Just seems like all body shops are crooks. It took over a year to get the car back, parts of it had to be repainted twice and a couple of parts a 3rd time. They didn't even use clear the 3rd time. They ended up doubling my price and taking 8x longer than promised plus they never cut and buffed it as I paid for. With a messed up paint job on a car that had been my baby for 20 years and had 200K miles worth of memories, I never put any of the interior back together and I just parked it in a shipping container, been about 4 or 5 years now. I took a multi-year break from the hobby. I was tired of getting screwed literally every time I had someone else help me with my car. If it weren't for my 69 Firebird, which had been my 2nd all-time dream car, I may not still be into the hobby. There are just too many shops trying to screw the home hobbyist.

Maybe in another 20 years my car will be some sort of container barn find. I just can't bring myself to even look at it. Just makes me sick.

My 69 is in primer and will STAY that way. Screw painters. I reported him to the EPA and had him shut down, I threated to sue his wife's business out of existence. I would have burned his shop down if it weren't for other people car's being there. The guy was a human piece of trash and was doing what he did to me to many other customers.