Several of us have been looking for a GOOD body shop around here but so far, we are pretty much coming up empty handed. If you find a good one, they are either 6 months behind or their prices are way out of reach. I realize there are no free rides but goodness..............a couple of folks I have talked to in the past must think they are Leonardo DaVinci or someone else famous. :lol:  :lol:    :lol:

There are a LOT of folks out there that can paint and will do that part of the job cheap.  Getting it ready to paint is another story.  Getting the body ready for paint is VERY, VERY time consuming.  Even if the body man is working for minimum wage, it cost a small fortune to get the job done right.

The first VW I had painted was my son's 74 Super.  We stripped it to the shell and sanded, bondoed and primed on it for a two or three months.  I'm no body man by any stretch of the imagination, but if you take your time and go slow (and you have a fairly straight and rust-free body to begin with) you can eventually get it almost ready for paint.  We had a $199 paint job spayed on it and it looked good for several years . . . til it had a run-in with the channel iron bumper on my Chevy pickup (I jack-knifed while I was towing it).