[DonC]

I second Chaplin's comments. I was back in CT earlier this summer and had a chance to talk to Walt Wosko Jr. of Connecticut Custom Cars and he took the time to explain what went into one of his paint jobs on the bodies provided to him from "Uncle Peter" at ERA (where mine will be coming from sometime in the future).
They take the body as it comes in from ERA and go through several iterations of filling, sanding, baking, refilling, resanding, baking etc before the color is shot.
A show quality paint job from them will run you in the 5-6K range depending on if you want stripes etc.
For 10K I would expect you could go the full ghost flame multi-color shading to other multicolors and then some.
Yeah, I'd shop around some more if I were you.
DonC