49 GMC Five Window

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The guy that did the metal work on this truck ran a commercial body shop with lots of insurance work before he started just doing classic cars. He doesn't paint top coats at his shop. His process is blast, epoxy primer, metalwork, filler if needed, blocking, feather-fill, blocking, then urethane primer, blocking with 400 grit or reprime until it cleans up. For the top coat it goes somewhere else.

The painter follows basically the same process, but says he primes and blocks about four times and finishes up with 600 grit before top coat. He doesn't know the metal work guy and says he wants to guide coat the truck and re-block it to make sure it is good, and if he has too, prime it one more time. (When I visited him for a rough quote, he had a early SL Mercedes in his booth. I'm not a fan, but it was straight as a pin and the paint was drop-dead gorgeous)

I'm the guy in between the two of them with a checkbook, and I'm a little concerned