Just sold my '74 Barracuda to a guy who also owns a '67 Camaro. The difference in parts almost blew him away.
At the same time, though, rather a fender costs $400 or $600, the return on investment for just about any car will leave you under water.
No matter what the breed, it's an expensive hobby and takes certain amount of money to get it done anyway.
What's funny is that when you start comparing prices it's all relative.
Years ago you needed good used sheetmetal to do a quality restoration. If you bought jip quarter skins to put on a Hemi car and saved money then the difference could be thousands on the back end when you went to sell as compared to paying, say, a grand for a good used quarter.
Had a customer who wanted to put $100 quarter skins on his '69 white on black SCJ Mustang. Or he could pay $1200 for a good used complete quarter. The difference could have been as much as $10k on the selling price. Sure, I could blend the jip skin in to make it look like it grew there, but to a trained eye, someone *really* good, it would be recognizable as a jip skin.
Now, ask a guy who owns a $1M Packard how much he's willing to pay to keep it a $1M car.
Had a buddy who wouldn't touch the hood on million dollar car because he was afraid screwing it up. Screw that. I'd pay my paint jobber for every friggin paint sample they had to make to get the color perfect and then charge that on the back end. Someone who wants it perfect is willing to pay the price for it.
Do you want to save money or do you want it done right?
