Then why does he always claim, to be THE BEST IN THE WORLD?
Owner's see their cars with rose colored glasses. Their pre-resto cars are always in good shape, needing minor work.....
So when the owner gets their baby back, they don't see wavy panels, bad gaps, panel alignment issues, orange peel, sanding scratched etc.
But hey, their happy.

Wheeler Dealers is a top rated automotive show. and their is ZERO attitude or drama.

Maybe cheaper to use ss but when r6 concept is 1400 a gallon I didn't feel like I was being frugal.

The only reason they would use single stage is to cut down on time and prep work. I painted all of my car with base clear, basecoat and cleared the engine compartment first, basecoat and cleared the jambs and undersides of all panels, basecoated the outsides of panels and body, then assembled all panels on the car, back taped all the jams then basecoatef the outside of car from fender to the end of quarter panel rather than panel painting, then shot 5 coats of clear. I painted the car in my garage and the total process took me 4 days and that was working probably 16 hr days, one of the days I spent almost 8 hrs just back taping the jambs so the wouldnt be any tape lines, it was a ton of work to get it done (so much that I havent painted another car in more than 5 yrs) but the end result came out great, out of the few big shows I have taken it to be judged I have won at almost all of them but my most proud award was a best show for paint. I guess what im getting to is to make money doing restoration work affordably its cuts alot of time using single stage the way they do and im sure it looks fine, im not sure about the reputation of GYC but it looks like they do a pretty nice job to me.

If your taking the time to "jamb" the vehicle before a full outer body shoot in BC/CC, it's just a few passes with CC after you've shot base on the jambs, again shooting SINGLE STAGE in the JAMBS, then BC/CC'ing the outer body falls back to an old practice of cheaping out on materials, it's been done for the last few decades since BC/CC made the scene that it's now taken as the norm in "restorations", I even had an individual tell me once "that's how the factory did it"...and I'm sure GYC thoughts on the matter share the same ignorance...

If GYC was truly "restoring" these cars to OEM, it would be SINGLE STAGE thru out the entire vehicle top to bottom, inside/out


FYI, If you were a painter "back in the day", when you bought a gallon of straight/single stage paint, you got a gallon, when BC/CC made the scene, a "gallon" was actually 1/2 a gallon of paint, you then bought a gallon of Base Maker to add a 1/2" gallon of it to make a true gallon of paint, plus now you had to buy a gallon of clear, the price comparison was double if not triple, so guys started jambing vehicles in single stage, and BC/CC'ing just the outer body to save a buck from buying more paint...now the frugal trend has been labeled "pre painting" to justify shoddy work and jewing the costs

Here are some details from the painter on the show -

https://www.velocity.com/tv-shows/graveyard-carz/videos/pre-painting-the-gtx

I didn't hear anything about ss in that vid. Seems legit to me.

I've thought that for years.

When the cars were built, the body was assembled then primered then painted.

These days everyone thinks that you paint every panel off the car to make sure that they're perfect from every direction then you bolt them on the car.

Does it make the car perfect/nicer?
Yes, absolutely.

But it wasn't that way when it was built new so is what you have done technically a restoration?

CHARGER 727 thanks for that link, it explains their process of "prepaint" to me and seems unlike several people here it does not have anything with being cheap or cutting corners.

Seems that when it is a metallic, it gets BC CC, solid colors are SS. prepaint is painting the car in pieces then assemble, address any flaws and let the paint and primers shrink down, settle in., then a final block and paint the entire car to get the metallics to lay even and consistant.

Don't seem cheaper to me sounds like they use more paint. I would guess he uses a panel blender prior to the final color to bite into the clear sanded prepaint