Full Restoration $$?
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Joined: Feb 2011
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From: Knoxville, TN
I'm about $7K in parts only on my truck and it'll be no where near "show quality" or anything. Everything's "upgraded" and "updated" from the fresh built motor to the Vintage Air to the custom dash and gauges I built. My time and labor, the different shops I'd have to use would be well into the $20K mark. Still haven't gotten around to thinking about the bed and a paint job yet but when all is said and done, I'll have a semi-custom 76 2wd Longbed for around $13K that'll last another 30 years like it did before I drug it out of the killing fields.
You want someone else to do it......hope you have at least $20k to put down because a real shop won't take you as a customer unless you pay upfront for parts and a % of basic "tear down and rebuild" labor. The shop will boot you as soon as your money dries up.
You want someone else to do it......hope you have at least $20k to put down because a real shop won't take you as a customer unless you pay upfront for parts and a % of basic "tear down and rebuild" labor. The shop will boot you as soon as your money dries up.
So did I when my wife reminded me of the money we have in it. 
Fleet Owner
Joined: Dec 2009
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From: NorCal
Ask the wife if she would trade it for a $400 per month vehicle payment for the next five years. Uh-huh. Perspectives are different if applied over time.
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The work, the parts, the price of gas, etc. This is a truck that sits 99% of the time. I aint complaining for real. Just the other day I dropped over $200.00 in AC parts. It was cooling great for about 20 minutes, until the compressor died. Another $200.00 for the compressor\clutch I'll get soon plus the R-12 I just purchased from Ebay. I get it, I just don't have to like it..LOL
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