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scr8p wrote:

Halgar wrote:That guy must have some seriously deep pockets to afford all those cars to be restored by you and your dad.

very deep. trust me on that.

beyond the complete restorations, and minor work to his other old cars, he's bought atleast 8 new cars this year. i don't mean hyundai's and kia's. bmw m6, porsche boxter spyder, srt8 challenger, some kind of mercedes (can't remember the model), and a gmc duramax pickup........ just off the top of my head.

Just out of curiosity, what is a ballpark figure for a ground up resto for this guy?

in the area of $60-70,000. seems to be the average.

That's a chunk of change!

Halgar wrote:That's a chunk of change!

you should have your truck restored Halgar. You can afford that . Prices have gone up from 20+ years ago when I was doing bodywork but that is actually pretty close to what it was percentage wise from way back then. Guy that was teaching me had several cars that were in the 75k range in his shop which back then might as well been a million dollars .
Todd

At the moment I don't have anything worthy of restoration, but I would like to get a late 70's Chevy - precomputers - that way I could work on it.

our labor is half (or less than half) of other quality restoration/custom shops. so let's say we build a car for $75K and $50K of it is in labor, the same job would cost $125K or more somewhere else.

Love that silver.. something about it...

so where is he headed to in MI?

another little update.....

3 weeks ago we had a profession striper come to hand paint the white stripe between the black and silver on the body shell and the doors (quick sample pic).
2 weekends ago, i got the stripes done on the 2 fenders. we got them back on the car this past saturday.
then, i got to work on getting the stripes masked off on the hood, as well as getting the grill on the back of the hood and the trunk lid ready to spray, too.
got them sanded and polished monday. then put some of the hood together.
the stiper is supposed to come today to lay out the pin stripes on the rest of the parts.

Nice work scr8p!

Ignore Halgar, he forgets to take is medicine from time to time.

Sent my truck over to Scr8p to lower a little bit for me. I think he got carried away!

you should've specified how much of a body drop you wanted. i bet you will next time.

wow, bodydrop, chopped and sectioned. Brings back some good memories <ST>

You know I always wondered what 4 on the floor meant?

He's done it again!!!

I asked scr8p to shave the door handle on my van ... Not quite what I had in mind

Halgar wrote:He's done it again!!!

hey, it's not my fault you keep coming back with stuff for me to work on.