This tear down of my car (less engine/trans), strip, panel fitment/reworking, minor lower patch, repaint, and reassembly, cost me about $10K and it is a work of art. NO shortcuts. Beautiful black paint job with AAR black out treatment.

I am sure if the car needed quarters and a trunk, it would have added a couple grand. But $25k for a top shelf rotisserie job on a moderately rusty/dinged/heavily undercoated/whatever car seems pretty doable without parts.

Am I missing something? Was the claim made that the entire resto would cost $25K including parts??? If so, I will join in with skepticism.