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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 rusty 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.

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We'll take yours as a vote of support.

We are a shop that advertises a $25k Max labor cost on a complete rotisserie restoration.

There are three schools of thought on Moparts.

1) The individuals, who do their own work say it is too expensive.

2) The shop owners, who do rotisserie restos for a living say that a good job can't be done that inexpensively.

3) Our customers, who love our work and are glad we are doing it.

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Well said!! I enjoy reading this post, it's a pleasure to see a company like yours doing quality work without bleeding their customers dry...you did hit it right on the head regarding the school of thoughts on Moparts( 1 & 2). #3 is what really counts!

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There have been a few bumps in the road on this one and it's my fault that I haven't posted more photos.

Some of you might recall that my father broke his hip a while back. He's doing fine now but we had to put him in a Memory Care facility where my mom could still be in Independant/Assisted Living. After a great deal of research, I highly recommend the Presbyterian Village. They have very high quality care with all the comforts of home. My father thinks he is on vacation at a resort and he really loves it.

Anyway, the car owner decided to have us go back and do a little more work getting the car more to OEM standards.

We've located and installed many date correct, properly numbered parts. Thanks to everyone who pointed out the issues on the master cylinder, etc.

Frankly, I was surprised at how much effort was required to find some of the correct parts for this car. It's an early 1970 so I guess that cut down on how many they made that would work with the dates, etc.

We found everything the owner wanted us to find and the effort was included at no charge. Of course, he paid for the parts directly and had them shipped to us. No thanks to the few vendors who would only ship to the bill-to address.

At this point, everything is done except for some of the detail work.

I'll get caught up on the photos as soon as time allows. I still have to get my parents settled in but rest assured that Mike and Hubert are still working at a frantic pace on this and other cars.

We'll be documenting the resto of a '70 Roadrunner Convertible next!

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