Cost of Paint and Bodywork?!

Man I love all these stories I was rejected by all of the local shops to do my duster and it was not in that bad of shape needed a fender and rockers the hood was in rough shape from previous sandblasting with black beauty fortunatly I met my neighbor down the street and he is a professional body man and took on the project in his own garage. I had frame work done by a shop called auto rust technicians not too far away (they can fix anything) added torque boxes full rear frame rails full trunk floor and front sub frame rails with sub frame connectors. the project took well over a year just for the body work as he was doing it when he had time but I told him to do it as if it was his car. He did everything Harrisonm mentioned and more many coats of primer sanded then cleaned then base coat his boss let us use the shop to paint it so each coat was dried at 160 degrees for 20 minutes at least three coats of mango tango copper #3 at $750 per gallon then three more clear coats then wet sanded three times starting with 800 grit then 1200 and finishing with 5000 it is mirror like I need to get some better pictures but as others have mentioned I'm horrified some chump is going to hit me going through town and I don't get far away from it that I can't shoot someone. This was my first car and I have had it since 1983 was a slant six but now a 360, lifetime project and is exactly what I wanted. I was extremely lucky to meet this guy and the body work was around 10 grand I stopped counting.