The advice given above is good advice man, listen to it and you shouldbe fine...heres a little something for ya (dont know if it was mentioned before or not). If you do the prep work your self, like sanding and minor repairs, and you get the car prepped right it will cut the costs down a large amount. I talked to one of the local body shops and they told me the things that rack up the most money are the time consuming thing like body work. because there your just paying for the man-hours, when it could of been done your self. He told me that if I prepped the body and did the body work my slef it would cut the cost in half. Well Im doing the whole thing in my garage now, I have little experience (painting bikes and a flat bed). The supplies I hae gotten and am going to be getting will cost me around $1200....but I already had a good compressor and two spray guns (one gravity fed and the other air-less). It is cheaper and your can control more of the end results, its also very stisfying!
Good luck man...