The 70 Duster......

Being the Charger is said to be ready to paint and is "suppose to be" painted next weekend. It would be crazy to pull the plug at this time.

I also understand the high dollar resto shop game. I shopped around for places to take the Duster after the first guy gouged me. I had bids from 8-25k just to paint (not reassemble) and even a "just give me a blank check and we should be able to get it done". I would never consider sending any of the cars that I have to a shop that charged 25k to paint a car. I am not that kind of spender!!! I also had one shop that wanted to take it in as a slow day project for a very reasonable price. However they were a basic insurance shop that was not used to doing any resto work.

As for the body man not finding the time to work on the Duster. Once the Charger gets painted and I get it picked up. If he decides not to work on or finish the Duster. You can bet if I have to pick up the Duster, unfinished. It will be parked at every local car cruise, every car show and driven around on a trailer with a sign to let all the local car guys know that this very well respected, very well know person in the local car community, took $xxxx to complete the job and this is what I got in return. The way I look at it, if he wants to continue painting cars and taking money from other car guys it would certainly be in his best interest to finish the job he chose to take. He is the one that set the price and I did not try to get a better price. He also set the terms and I have held up my end of the deal.