Best advice here. . . . "you get what you pay for" when it comes to painting vehicles. I just had my 69 painted. I "paid" for a
driving quality type paint job and that's just what I got. . . . The cost was 'cheap' by show vehicle standards, but it looks good and I want to drive my truck in the summer anyway. We do show it, but just to get the good parking spots

There's local painter with a national following less than a mile from my house. The guy's work is simply the best I've seen. He's painted for a number of celeberties. He doesn't give a price quote. The only thing he'll tell you is; "it will be over $10,000." I know a local car guy that got one of his cars painted by him. It was over $20,000 and that was 4 or 5 years ago. That's out of my league. Personally, I would cringe paying 3 or 4 grand for my bike to be painted, but the truth is, that ammount isn't out of line for a high quaity, professional paint job. The same quaity on a car can easily be double that.