[Stuart]

I'll quote myself from last year...this place is a couple hours south of the Cities if you're willing to wait a while before dropping it off.

Originally Posted by Stuart

For future reference, for anyone in the Minnesota / Wisconsin / Iowa area looking for a good shop to work with I had a great experience with these guys: http://www.bremsethbodyshop.com A father and his son run the place; they're in Wykoff down in SE Minnesota so they're kind of off the map, but they work on anything from old farm trucks to Rolls-Royces. They restored my 1986 BMW M535i a few years back, there's a picture of it at the bottom of their projects page. Their pricing was fair, they worked on the car pretty steady and sent me weekly updates with pictures, and their dedication to making sure the work was done right was great. The only thing was it took nearly 18 months from when we shook hands until they were actually able to get the car in and start working on it but that was fine since I still had the car and it wasn't trapped in paint jail.

Like I said the waiting list to get in the door is pretty long, but at least your car will remain in your possession and no money will change hands until they're ready to work on it. Once it's in their shop they'll go ahead and get the job done.