Body Work and Paint Estimate

Ive been using PPG for a while. Materials, overhead, body abuse, coins out to around 5 grand give or take on vehicle size. I wont touch a restoration for less than 10 grand and that is a fairly clean A-body.
I just did an old pickup. I have over 800 hours in it. Rust up the ***. I charge 35 bucks an hour and I am skilled and well equiped. My stuff is a 2 incher if you get my drift. LOL. You do the math.

Do it yourself if you can. I'm thinking of trying SPI products. I have not heard anything bad about them.
Biggest problem is metal prep. You have to get that freshly abraded metal coated with a quality "direct to metal" product within 8 hours.
Just be careful, If he aint taking it to bare steel and properly coating that steel, your 2 incher can turn into a 20 footer in 1 year.