Guys, probably in the spring we'll be ready to have the 51' F1 painted, I of course am always curious about things and thought I could ask my questions now.

first I'll tell you what the plan is. right now we have everything off except the cab (which we need on to fabricate power steering and install PB, column etc. and get it all right). we are going to rebuild the bed, do a bit of metal replacement on the fenders before having somebody else do the body work. Then we'll put it back together to check fit and do some last minute fab. that we need it together to get done. after that we planned on stripping it down again for paint.

In short, body work should be almost totally complete and the body will be apart in pieces already for the paint. My questions:

1. What is needed for a good paint job (my gallery has the photoshopped image of the paint scheme we are thinking about. Creme body with chocolate brown fenders and running boards. I thought that a little gold flake in the chocolate would set it off well too.), i.e. base coats, clear coat, number of each, wet sand afterwards??? I know very little about all of this.

2. What would a good quality paint job cost, not show stopper type, but good well done job? (if PPG is good we can save on materials, my cousin works for a distributor and could probably get us a great price on it).

3. We're thinking about having some airbrushing done on the door, like in the pic, when is best to have that done, before or after the clear coat(s)?

thanks guys!!!

Red