Speaking strictly as a big advocate of the worst-case scenario, I vote for the custom paint/bodyshop route. It'll make sense in good times and bad. In good times, somebody'll buy a new car and ask you to jazz it up. In bad times, somebody who can't afford a new car will bring around his _old_ car and ask you to jazz it up.
The brandy, cigar, and shoeshine idea is really a neat concept, but it basically kinda sounds like a barbershop with legal drugs. Not necessarily a combination that resonates in the public consciousness. Besides, in bad times they can shine their own shoes, buy their own booze by the bottle, and so on. But they can't decorate their own cars -- at least, not as well as you can.
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