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Typically shops have a minimum of 250-300 hrs just for prep and paint on the exterior body, you're talking about doing the complete underside as well.
You've done restoration work in the past so you should have an idea of how much time it will take to dismantle and strip the shell...

I personally think you're robbing yourself if you quote anything less then 500 hrs...





....and if Alan says 500, you should probably plan on 600!
mine took 600 and I had taken the car apart and got it back as a rolling shell.

Dave



Unless a car needs a lot of panel replacement, I just don't see how I could possibly have double the hours into it. And I do all the body work by hand. No air file, don't use a da and so on... just a hand grinding for welds and a larger angle grinder and stripping discs for the paint.

Maybe I'm too critical of the time, I go in the house and grab a can of pepsi, that's 5 mins I'm not charging for