uhhhhh......i need mental help fer 66 ferd f 100

340plot said
ok, i hate doing outside work. i would rather find/buy/ restore car i want, but money is so tight,i had to take on a frame off resto on a 66 ferd f 100 shortbed,3 speed on the tree resto. it looked simple from the beggining. it was a daily work truck. but had alot of peeling issues.
so, i look the truck over, and gave an estimate to redo it with him buying all the material. paint and all assoiciated body shop stuff wrung up to 1650.00

this was to pull fenders,doors,bed,glass off.
once getting into, i find all the uglies and now became a full frame off resto.

i just do not know how to charge for the additianal weeks worth of work. i mean what is the cost difference of leaving the main structurre on rather than taking it off. i see on the shows on tv, they say full resto, but all they do is blow black undercoat on the underside without removing much.
i have this truck in 200 pieces. it is a all out on my end.

still, it will not be perfect, as i would like, but he does not want to take a few extra steps that i would, since going this far into it.
i qutoed him 3k to redo the truck, but now i see i am doing it for peanuts. and it is 2 tone at that. i have at least 350 hours into as of now, and i am just getting paint onto stuff like doors and fenders.
at this rate, i will have about 1k hours into it. then i still have to revfresh the engine before dropping it back in.

what do you guys think? do i ask for more compensation or leave it alone?

i am using an android cell, and i have no clue hoe to post progress pics

stay tuned

It all depends on the deal you made. If you both agreed to do *** for *** amount of $$$ and you went further without getting another agreement to go ahead to do *** for additional $$$ I think it very could be a problem. I would be really unhappy if someone was spending $$$ I might not have without asking first. He may have a limit on what he wants to or can afford to spend on this project. The big thing is commmunication, communication, communication. He may be able and willing to kick in more money.

PoisonDart74 said
Hey, ask him to help out man, whether with labor or cost. There is no free lunch on hard *** labor, if he gets tough guy on you, ask him if he would do his job for 10% that he usually gets paid. See what he says.

That's a ridiculous deal you've got going on, I hope this isn't your only source of income... If he doesn't help, then screw it, throw that pile of crap out of your garage by the dumpster and wish him luck.

Don't sell yourself short. Good luck.

I don't agree with you on this one and it sure isn't the way to make friends but is a sure way to kill any future business or cars that he may send his way. Your word is your reputation.

340plot said
yea. i love doing the work. i have done a few mopars on here and they all turned out great from start tgo finish. i just cannot learn to keep one as i want to sell it asap and start another. this is why i hat doing outside work.
but, i owe a member on here, and he has waited patiently for me

I know you are a fair person from what we have dealt on. Stop where you are and negotiate any additional work that needs to be done but hasn't been done that wasn't part of the original deal. If he doesn't want to go any further past what you have agreed on then only do what you have agreed to do and eat what you did without an agreement.

None of us want to work for nothing and believe me I have made deals where I have lost money to do a job. Did I like it, heck no? Most of the time but not always, it came back in referals that I did make some good money on. One of those deals was on a mattress contract that I lost just over $5.00 in real money besides my labor on every mattress I did on a contract for Oklahoma State University. That cost me over a $1000.00 in real money plus all my labor. Soon after I was handed an open ended contract from them for $2483.90 a month for rebuilding their box springs so I ended up with an almost $30K a year contract that I made big bank on.