340six
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All kidding aside the guy at 600 is a steal.
opinions..... front end rebuild
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All kidding aside the guy at 600 is a steal.
340sFastback
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I say let that young guy do the front end work on that Comet for $600 laying in the dirt with no torch.
Ha in nj we are sarcastic
La gumptuous?
You got two ways around here to get it done you got a local man that has a traveling service and comes early in the morning and sprays your car single stage in the yard where you live when the gnats are not out too much but sometimes they are and he claims he has ways of getting them out...$700-$1400(decent for harbor freight gun not heavy orange peel but a few fish eyes ,better than maaco...but there's another way the downdraft paint booth that will cost you about $10k Grand around here for base coat clear coat PPG...show quality $20k
Wow so glad I have people
I have about 6k in my shop truck
Blasted
Floor and rockers
Paint ...at a body shop...
But I do help them when they need
I have about 6k in my shop truck
Blasted
Floor and rockers
Paint ...at a body shop...
But I do help them when they need
Deltatech
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Maybe this will help,$59 in 1964 is worth $608.65 today.
Could you get it done for $59 in 1964 when the car was new at a shop? (This is just a simple but hard question with nothing implied here. like Grandpa used to do.)I'm starting to have trouble with understanding this "modern pricing/inflation/tarif" thing too.
I started to look at things this way and it helped me understand the dollar today isn't the same dollar I learned about growing up.
When the car was new mechanics had to learn how to work on it for the first couple of years.
Now that it's old mechanics have to learn how to work on it because owners and flippers are the only people who know how to work on classics anymore.
I am aging out of the hobby I admit and over the many decades I have built many, even learned decades ago to do my body/paint. I paid the machine shop, the upholstery shop, and I paid a bud to do my trans. I did the rest after I learned to do my own body/paint. Lived in Missouri for 37 years before I moved to S E Texas in 2017. I have a muscle issue and for me to rebuild the front end would be a real stretch. I am down to just my 64 Comet ( yea I always wanted one) and I have all new parts for a complete front end rebuild, upper and lower loaded arms, tie rods, sleeves, drag link, idler, shocks, springs, strut bushings,idler, spindles, loaded backing plate with everything, goes to existing pitman! We live out in county with one traffic light, but people drive to Houston 1 to 1 1/2 hours for high paying jobs compared to "country " wages. (Underworked and overpaid???)
I have a "young"mechanic ( probably about 35) maybe a 1/2 mile down the road, has a lean to off his home for a shop, no lift, not even a torch, just him. So I had him give me a price to pull off the old suspension and install the new. Like just said, ALL new parts. $600 is his price. I figure 6 hours at most.
I realize when I take the family ride to have work done at a "regular " garage, the owner has the shop and makes a living, and pays mechanics a living. And the one man show mechanic down the road has to make a living.
Maybe $600 is a true bargain???????
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No problem. I hold my comments of political nature to the N & P site.
You are welcome to say what you think and mean what you say.
Just saying in general, Ca. is different than Tx.
Austin is different than Ft. Worth, Missouri is different than Il. and Mn/
There are smart people and idiots mixed in all around everywhere.
You got that right. I see an idiot everyday in the mirror and wonder how the heck he got there.
I did fall from a jungle gym once on my head
340sFastback
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Thats why you fit in so well around here with the rest of us idiots.
One thing about RRR, I bet he never pays someone $8-10,000 to do the paint in his pride and joy.... I can't say the same for everyone.
Heck, one guy this morning was talking about $20,000 paint
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I have never paid that kind of $$ either
I'm thinking 7k to have my body paint on my dart and that would be alot...
But I have friends and they like cash
I'm thinking 7k to have my body paint on my dart and that would be alot...
But I have friends and they like cash
Body work is hard work. I have done. I still prefer sing;e stage and it never peels! All materials for one runs me about $1200-1500 depending.
But now everything is water-based
Not where I come from!!!
Jim Lusk
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25 years ago a friend of mine had the front end rebuilt on his '71 Barracuda. As I recall the labor was $1,800. I rebuilt the front suspension on a '57 Dodge in 2018. I charged $750 and it took much longer than 6 hours due to some rust issues. $600 is a bargain. If I took another in I'd be at $1,000 for labor. I also charge $75 per control arm to replace bushings and upper ball joints and feel that's a bit low.
I have a 64 Comet same as Falcon, I have ALL new parts for the rebuild. Loaded ( as in installed bushings, in the upper and lower control arms), NOTHING like dealing with a press and Mopar arms, new coil springs, new idler and pitman, new tie rod ins with sleeves, a pair of new shocks, Loaded spindles ( as in all new brake shoes, etc. everything already mounted to backing plate.
I went ahead and took it ALL part other day, 1 1/2 hours, including lunch. I can hardly put one foot in front of the other.
I am sure $600 is a bargain no doubt.
I will just keep my $600.
Yea, I used my electric impart, a pickle fork, and a hammer.
For sure, slow as I am it will take me quite a bit longer to install the all NEW parts/ NO hurry!
mayhem
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I'm with you - $600 will buy a lot of pain meds...
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