for those of you with really bad paint or brand new cars

[RandallNeighbour]

The shop that quoted me $4k does frame-off restorations of vintage cars that are bound for shows and concours events. It's the kind of place that does the regular base coats then six or eight coats of lacquer for a "wet" look.

I'm sure a shop that caters to Lambo and AM customers can get away with charging far more for their work considering the cars they're working on are worth $100k ~ $1 million bucks.

A boxster like mine hardly warrants a $10k paint job. In fact, $4k is too much for a car worth $12k, but I'll probably pony up and spend it one day because I cannot afford to replace the car with a newer one and probably would not replace it even if I had the cash. The newer boxsters are simply not that much better looking than mine to spend the money.

Of course, if they finally come out with that concept boxster I saw a while back that looks like a cross between a 987 and a CGT, I could be persuaded to buy it as a CPO unit.