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Don't know. Looks like he did it right. But. Easy to get upside down in any full resto on anything then you want to recoup.
It's worth it if he finds a buyer but he's still upside down and badly.
I just sold a very nice driver, with upgrades (tranny steering) for half that price.
 
JP,

Funny was just looking at the car about a half hour ago.....75 000 invested in the restoration. Was trying to figure out how you could put that much into a 3A restoration......

Cheers,
David
 
I would expect OD and work on the rockers to match a curve of the door. Minor, but the spare tire doors alignment is off. Shouldn't the interior have white piping?
For that money, the car should be able to win a national show as is, and I don't believe it would.
 
M_Pied_Lourd said:
75 000 invested in the restoration. Was trying to figure out how you could put that much into a 3A restoration......
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You could hire me. :hammer:
Pay me 44, then spend 31 to fix what I do.
 
M_Pied_Lourd said:
75 000 invested in the restoration. Was trying to figure out how you could put that much into a 3A restoration......
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If you hire everything out with an iffy car I can see that happening.
 
you can spend that kind of dough if you have it all done. Doesn't matter if it's a VW or a RR man hours are man hours.
 
For comparison, here's one that went around some forums last fall. It sold for over 36 thousand pounds in England. The difference is that this one is pretty much perfect. (I stole the picture from M. Pied Lourd). There are more pictures in Bill Piggott's book since the car was used as an example. Worth the money? Maybe, but you can't drive it or it quickly becomes ordinary.
The red car is not even close. Between the money lost by the owner who had the red one restored and the potential loss by a buyer who pays the asking price, the red car may set a sidscreen record for lost investment.
Tom
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prb51 said:
you can spend that kind of dough if you have it all done. Doesn't matter if it's a VW or a RR man hours are man hours.
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Yup. If you talk to the high end Brit restoration shops (who charge $75-125 per hour) they will tell you there are all sorts of +$50k TR3's out there. They don't change hands very often though.

This example does have a lot of details that are correct, but a few that are not.
 
This is one area where I risk losing some concours points for sure - since I just picked up a good looking red version, that color badge will be sitting nicely on a TS45000 ish 3A!
 
People at a restoration shop told me a year ago that a full restoration of a TR3 would cost $75,000. I don't know anyone who would pay that price for a TR3, but there are people who can and would pay that if they wanted a "perfect" car that badly.

There is a difference betwen those who have these cars as "an investment," and those who have no intention of ever selling. If it is a car you just must have and "want to die with a TR3 in my garage," then cost is a secondary consideration.

I don't know anyone like that personally, but I have heard of such folks.
 
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