Painting a car is like doing tasks around the house. If you can do it yourself, you get the total feeling of accomplishment when it's done. If it looks like crap, then you spend all your time appologizing for how it didn't come out. If you spend a little change to have someone do a decent job, it looks good and makes you feel good about it. Plus, it'll give you more time to do the little tasks around the house that give you a feeling of accomplishment.

With race cars, it's not how good you look in the pits, it's how you look on the track. The first rub in a turn, the first draft, the first rock peck from a tire, the first trailering incident, and it's all done, anyway.