£50 doesnt sound unreasonable
if youre capable of making body panels from scratch etc then a little more wouldnt be too rude , then again if im booking a car in for 100s of hours then i expect a good deal
get some legal contracts in place to cover owners that vanish so you can legaly take the car to cover costs
Thank you. Realistically with a full vehicle refinish, as you say including 100s of hours of prep, you can’t count every hour. As someone said, no ones going to pay for me to watch the paint cure. But £50/hr gives me a bit of a basis to figure out a way to work out the labour costs of an estimate.