What's with auto body people? . . . .

I've been told by a couple of auto body shops that they don't even bother with restorations and rust repair jobs becasue they can make more money in a short time by just doing insurance claims and crash repair. The shops that said they would work on my car would not give an estimate and said that they would just charge materials and an hourly shop rate. Hard to budget for this. Probably not worth dealing with these shops anyway ... if they don't regularly do restorations they probably wouldn't live up to most of our standards.