DIY Paint Shop

[Papadog84]

Soooo this is my second attempt because my first thread was corrupted as I submitted it. I am new to this forum. A little background about myself is that i am an active duty soldier of over 12 years. I have a passion for 60's camaro's but nothing more than a rudimentary understanding of restoring cars. I have, however been generally smart with my money and am in a position to try an idea I have had since I first thought about restoring a car.The idea came about when I was doing my usual intense planning of future endeavors and I ran into the problem of where to repaint the car. Most of the bodywork can be done in a garage with sufficent skill and tools but painting requires a special environment.

That brings me to my idea. I would like to open a completely DIY auto paint shop. I know that there are shops on the west coast that allow people to rent their booth for a day but nothing really in the south east. I am thinking 3 full size bays with 1 motorcycle size bay and one or two powder coating bays. The customer would be able to rent the booth, spray gun etc and purchase or bring their own paint, respirator, and paint robes etc... I believe the primary market will be the skilled journeyman painter looking to paint cars for profit and I would probably charge them per project and let them have the booth for a few days, but it would be fully open to the public on an appointment/availability per half day schedule.

So what is the community interest for something like this? Is this a pipe dream? I have sufficient business acumen but I don't know what I don't know about painting. What are the enviormental concerns? What are the other concerns that would make this unfeasible or on the other hand, am I on to something. Is this something that the auto community could support? Prices of course would be reasonable and I am open to suggestions. Obviously they would have to be balanced with keeping the doors open, lol. But goal one is a high quality, readily available DIY auto painting solution.