50$ paint job..

It can work. Painting like that is just applying a thick coat in multiple layers and polishing the surface afterward.

Not very different than back in the day when folks used to say “It has more than a dozen coats of lacquer, polished to perfection.”
I think I read the first 14 pages of about 85 LOL on a 2006 thread on allpar forum and it was pretty interesting to say the least