I know they won't pay for a whole repaint, but it may or may not be needed depending on the rest of the car. I know I would not want a car that looked like was wearing two paint jobs down the middle.

There are guys here who paint old cars out of their garages that charge min. 65-70 hr and up. If you want an old car fully repainted this is where many end up unless you can do it yourself. It's illegal to do paint work on a residential zoned property, and without a real paint booth with filters ect., but when real body shops tell people no we don't do full repaints on old cars then these questionable garage type of businesses are bound to sprout up to fill the void.

I have no idea what a real body shop charges. I figured it would be a lot more than Joe Smoe working working from a single car garage a many of the body shops here have very nice facilities.