Actually I believe I resonded to your original post on this site. Unfortunately I do not know of any body repair shops out west near SF. I do have a friend who lives here now (Connecticut) but is fron Atascadaro (sp?) about 2 hours south of SF. He still has interests there and has buddies who are into cars and restorations so I'll ask him. My personal experiences with body shop guys have never been 100% satisfactory. Actually 75% is probably the best I ever got. As an example, after saving my money for a summer working construction in college, I chose a shop that had done all the fire engines in our town to paint my MGTD. The trucks looked great and I figured I couldn't go wrong. When they called to say the car was done I went to pick it up and found that they had not done the wheels/rims as contracted nor did they take the large dent out of the rear fender before painting the body! Then of course there was Joey Butafucco-what else can I say. Considering there are so many that post here from that end of the world, maybe not SF but to the north and south of you, that I am surprised no one else has popped up with a recommendation. this may be an ominous sign.