Cost of Paint and Bodywork?!

Here's a thought...

People go ape **** restoring cars to factory spec. Spend tens of thousands on getting the "correct" nuts, bolts and lunchbox parts to get their HEMI whutsit to its original glory... Good stuff right? They then tell you the paint job was 20k.. Wait, whut? The factory paint job wasn't 20k... they did not "restore" their car.... the customized it... cracks me up honestly. Especially how many people are into the patina of old paint now. like TMM said, I'd rather have a paint job I could drive around with and not worry about the grasshopper I hit going 80.