OK once all the smoke clears and all joking aside. Here is what is going on with the Body Shops and the Classic Car Guys trying to get their car body work and painting complete.
Most of the body shops out there do Collision Repair work for their main stay of business. The shops shy away from complete basic paint jobs because they take so much high priced material for the new finishes and lots of labor to match. They have quicker turn arounds and make decent money on collision work with only having to buy 1 quart of base color to match into the cars existing paint job. In and out quick and on to the next one.
No one can regulate what jobs are going to show up next. So the body shops take on a Restoration Job as fill in work as a "Saftey Barrier" to their work flow in case the collision work dries up. Unfortunately our guys with the classic's keep getting their projects put on the back burner as the collision work keeps coming in.
The subject of all the money that it takes to do the classic's has not even entered into the equation yet, so that is the next thing, body shops can get shell shocked . . afraid of getting burned for all the labor that goes into one of these projects.
Best to pay as you go in the stages as stated above. Then if the project stalls out, you are all paid up and can take your car and go to plan B.
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