Your be surprised how many people read this forum and are looking for good work.
I know I will easily drive 70-100 miles to get known quality work done on something I can't do myself.
OK.
Now you need to post the name, address, phone number, and exact person you negotiated with on this paint job.
Define exactly what you did to keep costs down, then ask the owner for another discount because he's going to get a line of Land Cruisers in front of his door...........
I have a LOT of years of wrenching myself on everything. I have always been willing to try anything once. I have learned that the things I don't want to do or shouldn't do any more.
I don't want to do: Set up differential gears, rebuild automatic transmissions.
Things I shouldn't do: Body...
So, I need to DEDUCT the cost of therapy since that's a big part of what I use my 80 for. Both in the seat windshield time as well as working on it.
It gives me a sense of satisfaction, project completion, closure, accomplishment, success, and it makes it so I don't have to listen to others...
I record all my gas fill up. I try to log all my parts and oil change costs, but I do NOT log my hours against my per mile cost. I have a 5 year average of 11.56 MPG. That covers about 65K miles.
Holy crap, if I logged my hours against it, I would be sorely disappointed.
Do I need to log my...