Lacuqer paint

My guess is lacquer is what he had laying around. Why several K for a pro paint job if you have the stuff on hand already?

Years ago, customizers like Barris, etc. used lacquer with great success, but those were lavish paint jobs done with extreme care, polished and buffed to the extreme and hardly ever driven. There's many images of those guys spraying show cars OUTDOORS too, so it's clearly easy to work with.

Let's say there's a car for sale and it's a pretty sweet deal. Would you willingly buy a car that you knew was recently painted with lacquer in a guy's garage?