Hey cool, one more who's profession is working on a vette. You must be a lucky man to have a anniversary model. I have done the paint-job on my 72 6 years ago. Puhh, that was a really hard job, because i'm more mecanically oriented and not a car-painter. After i had stripped the whole car, a friend of mine (his a car-painter and the one who gives the paintjob) comes to see if the finish is enough. What you think he had say, yes he touches the whole body with his flat hand. After that, he takes filler and plastered the whole body from new. I was really concerned, he then says that he have to help, because he think i would never end up with a result he needs for the paintjob. After finishing this stage, i had driven the car to a manufacturer of paint-cabines. I wanted a aubergine-pearleffect paint, when he paints the car i ask him if he has ordered the right color. It seems the color would come as a brown tone, after that he ordered me out of the cabine and tells me that this would come out as aubergine. After 2 hours we drive the car out of the cabine, it was a sunny day and what a hell: IT SHINES IN ALL COLORS, he has made a really great job. this whole work takes in total only 2000 Swissfrancs. Since then we are really good friends. And much times we had a laugh about this episode. SHARKEY