[john70t]

1). I initially thought your friend was a jerk, and voted #1.

2). Then the $1,000 cost was for a very small ding, and another "friend" was doing the repairs.
(with the culprit being a family man, without big bucks, and possibly a member of your church.)

3). Then the vehicle turns out to be a 14 year old work truck....which had already been rebuilt from salvage....?
Geeze louise. It's a frakin work truck.

Trek, I think your body shop friend is taking advantage of you, and/or you are passing it along.
You should have shopped around to get a more reasonable repair price, and had a moral duty to.
Or made him stand around helping you fix it.
Or just forgotten about the whole thing.

I suspect there is far more to this story, and a relationship history at play here.