inazuma_x wrote:
I haven't waded through the whole thread yet, but I would say $25K is if they did everything to the car. As in a ground up resto, not just the panel and paint work. For that money he would be talking EVERYTHING...engine, gearbox, etc, etc.
the way he was talking it sounded like it was just paint n panels...i was like "huh?"
when he said $25,000 over the phone i thought he was talking about the whole thing...which is OK...but when he was over at my house he sounded more like that was just for bodywork...at which point my enthusiasm for getting him to do it kinda hit the floor...
on sunday i told him that $6000 is the absolute max i am willing to spend on bodywork and getting it painted...to which he said "there's no way we can do it for that"...he then suggested i strip the paint off myself and MAYBE he could do it for about $6000...seems odd that he'd be charging $6000 -> $19,000 to strip the paint off
i've heard its hard work...but for that price i'd just buy a brand new shell from the UK
still got a few more weeks of unscrewing/unbolting this and that...so i've got time to line someone up...got 3 different guys coming over this week to look at it and tell me what they can do for me in terms of panels and paint work...i guess i just have to wait and see what happens here...
patience is not my strong suit
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Yeah. I have problems understanding what he actually mean sometimes too.
I have now read the rest of the thread and I am now thinking he meant $25K to gut the car, strip it, do the panel work, prep it, paint it and put all the bits they took off back on. This make sense when you said $6K was your budget and he said you would have to take the car to bare metal yourself to get to that price. This is exactly what I had to do. 3 Saturdays is all it took me.
Now the rust, etc, was pretty nasty in mine as you will se in the pics I am putting up in the next 10mins and the panel beatings, rust work and sandblasting set me back $3K. (which was $1500 better than any other quote I got around Brisbane...which wasn't many because no-one up here wants to do rust repair) I am yet to discuss prices on painting. I may end up taking it somewhere else (don't say anything to him) for that. But for the rust repair and panel beating, I wanted it done by the best because you only really get one go at it and that generally means it costs big money...I am VERY poor ATM.
BTW: Sorry I didn't call you on the weekend either. The car still isn't back at the workshop because they do not want to transport a freshly sandblasted car in the wet. He is going to call as soon as it arrives so I can go and take some pics.
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