Thanks for all the replies. What I did have in mind was doing some of
the work myself but it seems that there's a lot of effort & equipment
involved in that. Well, not the stripping. I may do that. I am going
to ask the local shop (Waterdown) how much $$ back that would get me.
Either on my own or in their shop.

The thing is, the paint isn't *that* bad. It was done in '89 and seems
to have been a decent job. But, there are a lot of scratches, and dings
(deeper than the paint), and stains. I'm quite aware that a $7K paint
job isn't going to add nearly $7K to the plane's value.

Paul Folbrecht wrote:
The paint shop nearest me wants $7K to do a 152 (2 colors). I can't
justify that for a $20K bird; the current paint isn't that bad. Is
there any way at all to get a real paint job done for, say, closer to
half that??