$7000 paint job

What everyone says is true, paint costs money these days as the materials are way more costly.. Like HemiMark, my car too was straight outside of a couple little dings as well as a rust free New York car... Since I am a hand pinstriper for mostly body shops, I got to pick who was going to do my work and this complete paint job cost me 1000. around 1989, it was painted using Dupont Chromabase, which was top of the line back then.. This is what it looked like this past summer as well as today.. Yet it does have tiny dings now and I painted the hood a semi gloss because the sun hitting the hood would blind me...