When I had a body shop, I finally made an unbreakable rule that I would not paint a vehicle unless I had done all of the prep work and preliminary work. And I doubt there are many reputable body shops that do otherwise.
I suspect you may not have told the entire story. For openers, you asked for basically a "half-a$$ed" paint job. On a car that old, who knows what might be under the current paint. And remember, when someone paints a car, his name is on the paint job for years.
I had one experience I still recall. A fellow had a VW something or other. Not a Beetle, a boxy bodied one. He had done all of the prep and priming and just wanted me to shoot the paint on it. I started to. I didn't have the first coat done when the entire area I'd painted broke out in "fisheyes". Then it dawned on me, the fellow's brother had a detail shop and most of the work on the car had been done in a stall in the detail shop.
Now, materials used in detailing a car are heavy in silicone. And silicone is the absolute dirtiest word in a body shop 'cause it causes fisheyes in fresh paint. On this car, I tried adding some fisheye eliminator to the paint, but there was simply too many fisheyes. I stopped right there, and told the guy we'd have to let the paint cure for at least two weeks, sand it out, and start over.
Three days later, the guy brought the car back. He gone ahead and hand sanded out the uncured paint. There were sand scratches galore. I told him if I shoot paint on that, all of those sand scratches will show and it will look like hell. He insisted all he wanted was paint shot on it. So-I added plenty of fisheye eliminator, shot paint on the car, all of the sand scratches showed through, and it looked like hell. To make it worse, it was black. Black shows EVERY flaw in prep.
Then, the guy refused to pay the bill, saying I had done a lousy paint job. His brother, who was a bit more astute, finally paid the bill. And the car was running around town with my name on the paint job. That experience led to my policy that if I couldn't do everything from when the car was untouched until the paint job was done, I wouldn't touch it. I had a few potential customers leave in a huff, but I didn't need that kind of customer. I can't imagine any shop that cares about its reputation would think otherwise.
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