All good advice. I would have to say if your not going to invest in the body work which is the foundation you will not get good results. If you find someone who can lay good paint it doesn't matter where they work just request or buy a good paint for them to shoot. Personally I think a Chevy in black primer has a mean a$$ look to it and kind of sexy (I am a girl so I think I can get away with that one). If you are going to worry over the paint and spend hard earned money on it I wouldn't get in such a rush to put it on inferior body work. I always lay my priorities out, drive train first, then looks. If it don't run but its pretty then its just a big knick-knack.