The big question is how nice do you really want the car to look ? If youve never held a spray gun in your life I would tell you to find a guy that does side jobs in his garage. These guys are all over the place. Automotive paints are not cheap. Even the cheap ones arent really cheap if you can make sense of that. Then sandpaper, bondo, primer. If you spend all the money on materials and dont have the skill to do the work youre going to waste your cash. Ive painted everything from small parts to frames, I have a nice sized compressor, 4 different spray guns and I wouldnt attempt to paint a whole car. Even after doing the stuff that I know how to do for years, its different when you do a whole car. If I had an old bomb that I just wanted to try it on maybe I would take the chance but not anything that I would want to look good.