Hey---I'm one of the "shiny car" guys. I always finish my cars in a high gloss finish. But---I know that a lot of people like the 'primered" look. There is just something kinda "evil" about a nasty car in nasty black primer. I like it on some other peoples cars, but wouldn't want my own ride finished like that. Same as "black with flames". I love it ---on other peoples cars. During the sixties, when hot rods ruled, and my daily driver was also my "weekend warrier" hotrod, It wore primer a lot of the time. Not because it was any kind of anti establishment statement, but because most of my cars were "works in progress". And, unfinished bodywork rusts!!! (So does primered bodywork, but the primer does provide a TEMPORARY barrier against rust). Many of my cars had the "patchwork quilt" look, with red oxide, not black primer, and each week the primer patches were in a different place, as the custom bodywork progressed. Eventually, the bodywork would get finished, and the car would debut with a "knock your eyes out" glossy paint job, but there is still a place deep down in the teenage rebel corner of my soul that likes a black primered "nasty" looking car.