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Originally Posted by calling911
You will likely spend twice what its worth in the end. I think thats pretty typical. I've never heard of anyone making money on a restore unless it was done poorly and sold to an unsuspecting buyer.
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While you may be right in the end, because I am doing everything myself (aside from the spraying), and I paid peanuts for the car, my costs are pretty low. I can see how it would be easy to throw "stupid" money around and very easily blow a budget, but if you spend wisely and wait for the right price on used parts that you recondition yourself (media blast/repaint/re-plate), I've found that rebuild costs can be kept in check.
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Im curious.. why not spray it yourself.. would have been a great learning experience. Why are people so afraid to spray? While I appreciate the skill involved I am amazed at the going price for a respray. I bet you paid $1300 or more for that respray and all they had to do was wipe it and spray.. or did they do the panel smoothing too? Was it stripped?? do you have a thread on this? Now I want to know more! 
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I did consider spraying it myself. I went around to a few body shops in town, tho, and met a great guy who went over the car with a fine-toothed comb and cleaned up any imperfections I left from my amateur work. Although it went against my "do-it-yourself" mantra, the paint job is the most visible signature of a rebuilt car that you don't want to f**k up.
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Im jealous.. you are at the absolute funnest part of a rebuild.. I LOVE this part.. Suggestion: get someone to help you when you mount fenders and doors and fenders.. its gonna be easy to mess up that paint job.
Actually.. harbor freight has some nice cheap door lifts which would be better than a helper. Maybe you have this stuff already.. sorry if I am telling you something you already know. I just know while doing initial body work it sucked taking doors on and off with no lift or help..
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Yes, I'm looking fwd to it, too. I'll check into the HF door lifts as I doubt my wife will be much help there.
Check out my photo link in my tag line below - lots more pics of the whole rebuild process there.
Geoff