$15,000 package?

[regularman]

ebay midget
I can't see where the 15K was put in this one. I would not swap my 71 for it. Unless they mean it was restored for 15k in 1980, but why would they do that? They could have found a new 79 on the lot somewhere and not paid that price. Kind of odd.

 

[Tullamore]

Looks to me from the chips and interior that it needs to be restored again!

 

[spritenut]

It must be the $2 rubber antenna and the custom $20 trim rings that made it cost so much to restore.
Looks like a cheap paint job too, notice the yellow inside the car.
I always paint everything including the inside of the outer door skins if I change colors. Nobody will ever tell.
Oh, it has to be the Pepboys extra gauge under the dash!
If you are going to do a checkbook restoration, at least watch the restorer and steer him in the right direction or checkbook restore something worth more than 5k if you are going to spend 15k.

 

[Sarastro]

Doesn't say when the restoration was done. Got it in 1980 and restored it--so it could be as early as the early 80s.

Yeah, I think you easily could drop $15K into any car and not have it show. Takes some effort, but it can be done.

 

[lbc_newbie]

Uh....yeah, I got $13,500.00 into mine.....can you find it??

Nice looking car. I can see how it adds up over time, but not all at once.

 

[regularman]

Doesn't say when the restoration was done. Got it in 1980 and restored it--so it could be as early as the early 80s.

Yeah, I think you easily could drop $15K into any car and not have it show. Takes some effort, but it can be done.

Yeah but its a 1972 and so was only 8 years old in 1980. In 1980 you could have bought a very nice sports car for 15K. 15k in 1980 was a lot of money. That was 30 years ago and so probably the equivalent of 30-40K now.

 

[startech47]

I like the way they drilled through the trim strips and pop riveted them on to the body.

 

[smaceng]

If someone said that I was going to put $15K into my BE when I started a little over a year ago, I would have said they were crazy! Having passed that point too many months ago, I now realize how easy it is for it all to add up. It does not always show, but I have the receipts for everything.
Scott in CA

 

[startech47]

But, the better than show room quality of your car makes the expenditure worth while.

 

[Gundy]

It's awfully easy to drop that kind of dough on a project.
I have the receipts to show where more than that was
poured into my BE yet it sold for less than the investment.
I'm not even talking about labor.
Most of the costly stuff on the BE can't even be seen but
trained eyes can find the clues to where the money went.

As we say in the Cruiser world...it shines where it NEEDS to
shine. Drive-train and suspension.

 

[jlaird]

I could have told you but you didn't ask, sigh.

 

[Gundy]

I could have told you but you didn't ask, sigh.

Fools rush in.

 

[jlaird]

But then you really have something when you are finished. Just think, your wife knew where you were all the time.