I went to a paint/body shop nearby and was quoting getting some dents and things fixed (which would have required a panel and paint because one dent is on a seam and would take excessive body work to get it right.)
Funny thing is, for the 3-4 dents that aren't really that bad, they wanted 700$ flat to fix those specific dents and said they would prefer to fully repaint the areas+ re-order the side stripes (GT/CS).
700$ for those dents, paint, replacing the stripe, was fine.
When it came to the hood dents, they said they could pop them, but that it would cost more than the dents and repainting of the dents on the side...
To clarify, the 700$ was for 1 deep-ish dent near the gas tank (it's not as bad as it sounds), 1 smaller dent near that, a bent area above the gas tank on the body line (that is kinda bad), and then the worst on that panel is above the quarter window it's on the body seam there... and it's the one that made the guy say that it would be better off ordering the whole panel and replacing it, and repainting it/clear coat.
...included in that is a bad door ding, not caused by me (all these were there when i bough it, and i have proof).
It's on the driver side door right over where the GT/CS is, below the mirror... as far as car doors go, for a show car, it's the worst dent on the car by far. It's also the weirdest, because it looks like something fell on it, from above, but also pushed in, I still have no idea what that was...
But all that was quoted for 700$, and about 1200$ if I wanted to replace the door instead.
But then came what looks like hail taps on the roof and hood, and they said I might as well replace the hood, and the top would have cost me about 400$ because of the 10~ish little dings there.
I was told about 1600$ for everything... but for the hood, apparently getting a new one is even a body shops choice.
now I was told I could get them to attempt to pop the hood dings, but it would have cost me per-hr on all the little dings on the hood because it was more delicate and not as easy to work as the other parts of the car.
I haven't had the cash to do it, but I plan to get that door fixed and the back panel before I ever think about the hood....
Anyway, hope that helped, 700$ isn't bad, but I'd honestly say get another hood, thankfully mine isn't as bad as yours