Probably 15 years ago a friend of mine paid $1,800 (parts included) for his '71 Barracuda front end rebuild at a local tire shop. I charged a buddy of mine $750 labor last year to rebuild the front end on his 1957 Coronet. I undercharged by a bit due to all the rusty parts, etc. I do hot tank, bead blast, and paint the hard parts. The labor should have been $1,500. All told, I made about $1k on the entire job as there were other things that needed to be done, but I think I made about $10/hour, if that.