The Future of DIY Painting...

[bwwooster]

... looks bleak, or is it?

I just got off the phone with Pop, who was at the shop that resprayed a trunk lid for him this week and the painters there told him that if I wanted to paint another car in the near future, I'd better get the materials this year before they're gone. I've painted five cars (including my Mk II) and it seems like whenever I get to that point every five years or so, the materials have changed completely and living in the SF Bay Area, they're only available greater and greater distances away (for the Mk II I had to drive 100 miles south to Salinas). Now it looks like they won't be available at all.

Is this really the case? Does anyone know what's happening in the automotive paint industry over the next few years?

As it stands right now, my current project car, a '75 Lotus Elite, will probably get its colors by vinyl wrap!