[DanEC]

Kind of a hard question to answer as there are so many variables and different levels of paint shops. Materials have gotten pretty expensive and I'm hearing $3000 is pretty typical for the paint supplies on a better quality paint job. Around here the guys with cars in paint jail right now are paying between $50 - $75/hr for labor - which is probably cheap since I'm in Arkansas. You can probably save some labor by stripping the car down yourself and maybe even doing some preliminary prep and sanding - although it's something you need to have a good idea of how to do.

At one end you have someone like MACCO at probably $1,500 (not sure that will get stripes however) and at the other end you will have a custom paint shop at around $10 - 15,000 would be my guess on a body with no damage to be fixed. I have an old Corvette and it's not real rare to hear of $20,000 paint jobs and quotes on their forum.