this was a sand it and paint it only job .
miata's are like nat's at the track just didn't want another all white one .
no body work but to get a little better job i did take some things apart like pulled the bumpers mirrors door handles .
sanded the hole car with 800 grit wet went over the car again and sanded with glasurit sand fix and a gray pad masked the top off and painted the lower part blue and then cleared the hole car .
i have the same type of thing to do to my porsche 948 over the winter break of racing .
many times if it's a road driven car you will end up repairing little chips and things too .
i did do a complete color change to a volvo S60R a few years ago that the guy drive the brand new car from the dealer right to us for a color change it's rear for people to do that but just the mask and paints are not uncommon .