Chris

Excellent posting.

Showed your email to my mate who owns a rather large Panel Beating ( Smash
Repair ) business here is Penrith Australia.  Has over 15 panel beater
working for him.  His opinion " Do you want a job come on down. " A lot of
his work is the restoration of older cars and collectables of which he has a
good reputation.  He admits that whilst people would insist on such detail
as you espouse, often customers wont pay the piper to so such a detailed
job.  But a true enthausist working on his own venicle would go to any
lengths to get it right the first time.  His one final remark find the
source of the leak and fix that first.  Kind of like painting the inside of
the house without the roof being on.

Ray Hunnam