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11 minutes ago, wackawacka said:

I bid on so many cars but haven't won one yet. I am expecting a recession so now waiting for some forced selling. Hope to update this thread within a year...

I think the classic car market is in for a tough secular future. Boomers shedding their trailer/garage queens. Spend any time at a car show these days. Most of the owners are within a stones throw of the reaper. The market will do what it does. I might need more garage. Last time I pitched my wife on another one we were driving down 620 and the heater core decided to fail all over her side of the floor board. So we all have problem.  

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Not far from truth. I think I averaged a little under 20K for the two paint jobs on the MGA. The first one was done in our garage in 1980. The second was not. Granted the second included a lot of metal repair first but a really good paint job is 10-15K

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2 minutes ago, Mother mopar said:

Road tripped over to Mobile, AL for big Mopar only car show. Mopars at the Battleship, cool place and great weather. 

That blue 71 Dart was for sale @ $26k and was a bargin.  

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Crap - if I had know I would have driven down.   Huntsville is having a show on Memorial Day so I will easily get there

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20 hours ago, AUinHsv said:

Not far from truth. I think I averaged a little under 20K for the two paint jobs on the MGA. The first one was done in our garage in 1980. The second was not. Granted the second included a lot of metal repair first but a really good paint job is 10-15K

If no metal body work is needed and it's a prime, block, prime, paint, clear, buff job probably close to 20K.  Body work, removing trim, assembly, etc. takes it up from there.

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3 hours ago, TexasEd said:

If no metal body work is needed and it's a prime, block, prime, paint, clear, buff job probably close to 20K.  Body work, removing trim, assembly, etc. takes it up from there.

Probably more correct for muscle cars. The MGA is smaller, no roof and just fairly simple in terms of curves in the body. It just needs less effort

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Just an add on. I am pretty sure I posed some of these way back in this thread but here are some before and after shots of the MGA. And yes, the color does look totally different depending on what light is nearby

I am heading up there next weekend. It is about 98% done but the 2% is a back ordered trim piece

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25 minutes ago, AUinHsv said:

Probably more correct for muscle cars. The MGA is smaller, no roof and just fairly simple in terms of curves in the body. It just needs less effort

Yes, I lost the thread.  My numbers are for normal sized cars with a roof.  I didn't know we were talking about cars for ants. :)

 

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If no metal body work is needed and it's a prime, block, prime, paint, clear, buff job probably close to 20K.  Body work, removing trim, assembly, etc. takes it up from there.

It’s an onion where every peel reveals an expensive new layer of “we’d better fix that since we’re in here.”
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