All explained above....What can I say, I always find it frustrating that they don't ever use the owners clubs when doing car restorations. I wonder how much them badges cost to get made. Didn't want to fit an aftermarket dash but happy to fit the badges. Looks like the suspension wanted sorting out.
Didn't get to meet Drew but obviously met Paul, he was actually a really nice guy and did know what he was talking about. He mentioned he would get an EFI system put on plus front diffuser and rear wing. Guess Drew our cash constraints held them back. I've fitted the EFI system, other bits to come..It’s another case of drew talking total rubbish just like he does on some of the furniture on the other programme he does,look at some of tne other cars he’s had some of its laughable
Ahh the dash, looks OK but I'd rather have an original which I will get at some point, probably when I take out the dials that need relacingI only caught the last 20 min but the car looked lovely. Did think after they'd gone to all that trouble filling and sanding the dash, it would have looked better to paint it rather than flock it, but it was the flocking company doing the filling and sanding so what else were they going to do I guess!
I'll have to watch it from the start to see how the car looked when they got it.
Was it a fresh off the boat US car with federal bumpers, baked paint and everything?
@Ian666666 So spill the beans, what did you think of it after delivery, what have you done since & what are your plans for the car?
Yes the exhaust is great quality and did have the tipple webers which I removed and sold as I'm worried about emissions in spain and getting the car exported out there. Hopefully I'm not going to find to many issues with exporting but knowing how the Spanish are with classics I can see a bumpy ride ahead.Didn’t get to see under the bonnet at all, I know it had been converted to triples and had one of Sean’s exhausts on it, as I talked to the previous owner at a car show last month. To be honest quite liked the flocking. The other special bits like painting the tyre names and getting those badges made was an expense that could imho be better spent elsewhere.
What was the EFI system?Didn't get to meet Drew but obviously met Paul, he was actually a really nice guy and did know what he was talking about. He mentioned he would get an EFI system put on plus front diffuser and rear wing. Guess Drew our cash constraints held them back. I've fitted the EFI system, other bits to come..
Salvage guys purchased for £19k and they said total cost the £25K so only used £6k, doesn't make sense to me....And all done for £9k? A decent paint job eats most of that
They could have bought some for an awful lot less than that!All explained above....
As for the badges and being a qualified toolmaker and manufacturing business owner myself I would have charged around £5k for the tool alone and probably £300 per badge seeing they only wanted 2. They did get 4 made so will probably put the other 2 up for sale at some point..
Ahh the dash, looks OK but I'd rather have an original which I will get at some point, probably when I take out the dials that need relacing
Dust sticks to it like s@@t to a blanket
So I've tracked down previous owners, it was sold new in California to a guy who sold it a year later to someone else in California. The new owner run it for around 10 years then had issues with fuel smell in cabin, at this point it sat on his driveway for a further 25 years without moving (see pic). His son then picked it up and start a mild restoration and then sold it to a classic car company called Stolze in the Netherlands. Then Paul who was on the show brought it and imported to the UK, did a fair junk of work on exhaust, suspension and the webbers before selling to the Salvage guys, rest is history. I'm going to get it as mint as possible but still try and keep authentic (no flared arches going on this one) as it's to rust free to mess around with to much. 62000 miles on the clock so many left in it for a life back in the sun in Spain..
Salvage guys purchased for £19k and they said total cost the £25K so only used £6k, doesn't make sense to me....
Paint Job say £5k
Interior panels £1.3K
New carpets, leather interior and seat trims and painting panels etc say £2k
Tires painted £0.2k
Badges and tool must of cost £3k at least
Flocking and IP repair £0.5k
That's a total of £12k without labour and bits I don't know about so must have owed them at least £31K