Cost of restoration

[ozbox]

the wb van had 40 k spent on it over 10 years wiuth the owner doing most of the labour..it was a clean clean van to start with..most money was really spent on the running gear and chrome and leather...


the hq sandman cost me 2k back in 2001 and still looks the same but i have collected mostly nos parts for it..i believe it owes me around 12 to 15k as it is now which is complete and ready to start restoring..my value on restoring the hq sandman back in 2001 was 30k...the wb van i bought because i knew how much had been spent because i sold him most of the goodies and i also knew that i could not build it for anywhere near what i payed for it but could wreck it for more if i cant get 20k as a resale..

i have customers that have scrounged and saved and spent more on petrol that there engines to do a resto cheap which is around 15k and 5 years of searching for cheap correct bits and then i have customers that do little work and dont look for parts but get me to find the right bit and there budgets are genrally 40 to 60k...

[HZSandman]

PS

All the prices I put up include postage when bought on EBay. The only thing I did not include was the cost of petrol to get some bits.

total cost less funds gained back through selling bits is $38,902.96.

Still need to tidy engine bay, chrome front bumper and that's about it. Pretty happy all in all. Could have done it cheaper with more experience. Could have spent more for a body off resto but that would have been silly when a lot of work had already been done when we got the van.