You can get wrapped cars that have a metallic finish on them, it's definatley not the same as paint but I think it can look better sometimes and the price is right compared to a re-spray. Check out this Mercedes done in a gloss wrap:

 
I don't actually mind the matte finish of a wrap either:

The thing with a wrap is a really good one will cost as much as most of the cheaper closed door resprays.
On top of that you need a really good paint surface to apply it to because if there are dips and ridges in the paint from chips or paint flaking like on your car shaz you will still see those lines and dimples showing through under the wrap.

Passenger seat is matched.  He also took the seat part off & put more foam in the sitting part of the bolster.
V Happy.

Yayyy I now have working Air con.  Newcastle Auto Electrics fitted compressor supplied by mrmr2 and they didn't find anything else wrong. 
 
Plus my first uber ride this morning was great.  Got talking cars............. as you do............... His previous house mate has an MR2, turned out we had met him at one of the Newy meets.

Yeah I forgot to mention the condenser to them.  But thought if there was a problem they would find it anyway.  Was very happy when I called them at 3.30 to see how they were going & was told she was ready to go & was the price they had quoted me   $440 including gas.
 
Can't remember what car the uber car was, they guy's name was Chris.  The car his house mate, Martin, has is a very loud red sdub.  We met Martin a couple of years ago, think it was before you started coming.  We drove to Swansea.  He is now living in Sydney.

I need to get my AC seen to as well, my compressor is on its very last legs starting to whine quite bad so I may need to contact Josh and see if he has some more AC compressors.

hhmmm, need to re-think re-spray.  Could be another year or 2, depending on what other repairs need to be done between now & then.
 
went to 2 of the suggested places today.
1.  $10 - 15K and 2 months, but couldn't do it for at least 12 months.
2.  $6 - 10k and 1 month, but not for at least 6 months.
 
They both said sometimes once the job is started things are picked up that need fixing that were unable to be seen until things started coming off, etc.  I didn't realise that a "Closed Door" respray still involved taking windows out, etc, etc,
 
Both back to bare metal, otherwise they don't know what they are painting over, meaning rust having spread under the paint from a spot that can be seen, etc & no guarantee that it wouldn't start lifting/peeling again in a couple of years.  Spent a bit of time talking to the 2nd one while he explained why this & why that.......... made sense.  He even took me out to the workshop & showed me a few examples.