It sounds like he gave a very detailed estimate of the work to be done. I've never had an estimate with that much detail. I spent a lot more then that amount to have my 60 done around 10 years ago, & was far from satisfied with the results. A fellow Imperialist with a 66 had his done at the same shop & he spent a lot also for his work & wasn't satisfied either. I would say that if you think the work you've seen him do is good & based on such a detailed estimate of the work you require, I would be inclined to give him the job. I havn't seen your Imperial, but the price sounds very reasonable for a quality job. Kevin Pacheco wrote: > got some free estimates today for some body work and paint job. People > recomended to me b&w body shop. I saw some of his work, and its very good. > He said there was 17 "things" to be done. he needs to work on panel, > hood. fender front left, fender front right, door shell front left. door > shell right. door shell rear both left and right. panel roof. penel quarter > left. panel quarter tight. lid, rear deck. and other things like taking > time to mask the car, taking off letters and puting them back taking off > trim etc. Which is 108 hours of labor, plus 10 dollars a day storage, is > 230 dollars for 29 regular 8 hour days. labor comes out to 4,100.20!!!! It > all comes out to 2489.50 for the paint, and 2654.80 for the body work. > Grand total of 5,374.30 All I have to say is WOW. Is this a reasonable > price? much work is needed to be done on this car. > Kevin Pacheco > currently looking for 3 more jobs to get enough money to paint his car... > 71 Imperial Lebaron > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com >