[Rev]

I would buy a good book on painting and read it cover to cover more than once. You'll see that good body work and preping for the paint involves a whole lot of different steps and a lot of expensive materials. I spent months of weekends getting my car ready for paint.

That included a lot of disassembly as well as repair work. It started with completely stripping off all the old paint (a major job in itself). Then the body work involving patch panels welded in and the Bondo work. Then the primer sealer and then the sandable primer with block sanding and more sandable primer. After everything was as straight as I could make it, the primer sealer was applied. Then came the color coats and the clear coats. And finally the color sanding and compounding.

Are you catching my drift here? It's a lot of work and it takes a lot of patience, and an extreme amount of work, especially for a do-it-yourself job. Mine came out only OK. A pro with a body shop and a paint booth could have done it better but with a fee of $6000-10,000 after all was said and done.

Rev