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Car Forum / Antique and Collectibles / Studebaker / April 2005Pebble Beach
just watch the Pebble Beach show on the tube. the winning car had a 12,000 man hour restoration. Run the numbers on that at say $75 hour-$100 before parts and materials. <g>  SignatureJP/Maryland Studebaker On the Net http://stude.com My Ebay items:http://www.stude.com/EBAY/ 64 Challenger (Green Wrapper) 63 R2 4 speed GT Hawk 55 Speedster 50 2R 10 truck But it's all worth it when you put that $18 trophy on the shelf. Lee > just watch the Pebble Beach show on the tube. the winning car had a > 12,000 man hour restoration. Run the numbers on that at say $75 hour-$100 > before parts and materials. <g> There is a pretty well known restorer of significant historical hot rods (like the ones they have started to display at Pebble Beach in the last few years) who started a restoration of one such car (that was not in really bad condition) last year. The restoration "budget" was over $300,000.00 > just watch the Pebble Beach show on the tube. the winning car had a > 12,000 man hour restoration. Run the numbers on that at say $75 > hour-$100 before parts and materials. <g> Last year, The LeMay Museum Restoration Shop restored a 1942 Chysler Windsor "Highlander" 2-door Convertible in which I made all the interior plastic pieces. No other example of this model is known to exist. Total costs approximated $120K. Concours quality throughout. First time I tried this, but very pleased with results. Think they got a very good deal from me. Much of the cosmetics had to be fabricated as NOS parts were not available. I think some of these shops charge whatever they think they can get from an uneducated owner. Paying more may help them think they are getting better. Cheers, Rich Richard Morris Renton, WA 64 Avanti R-1 #5367 90 Avanti 4-door #78 2-door Convertible in which I made all the > interior plastic pieces. No other example of this model is known to > exist. Total costs approximated $120K. Concours quality throughout. > First time I tried this, but very pleased with results. Think they got > a very good deal from me. Did you use stuff like Smooth-On to pour your castings or did you actually shoot the parts? Yeas ago we experiemnted with the Smooth line and did everyting we wanted to do, but you had to work fast. Billy Bill; I make all sorts of parts from Plastisol (a water based PolyVinylChloride poured or injected into a tool/cavity and cured with heat). I made the Chrylser parts from Ridgisol (same as Plastisol but higher durometer). Initially, I cast the parts in the color desired, including gold flakes and white & brown streaking. But the results did not match the original closely enough, so we ended up painting the surface to match. The biggest deal was getting the tooling correct to exactly match the originals. Don't know if I'll ever use the tools again - suppose if some Chrylser owner wanted parts, I could make them. I inject the tools with 60PSI to ensure quality. Someday I'll try a reverse epoxy casting to circumvent metal tooling. Rich Richard Morris Renton, WA 64 Avanti R-1 #5367 90 Avanti 4-door #78 > just watch the Pebble Beach show on the tube. the winning car had a > 12,000 man hour restoration. Run the numbers on that at say $75 hour-$100 > before parts and materials. <g> Back in the late 70s we visited White Post Restorations (in White Post, VA). The owner, Billy Thompson, was telling us of the '37 Mercedes 500SK they restored for Williard Marriott (yes, the hotel guy). I could be wrong on the car- CRS, but it was a big rare roadster. They started by sending a crew to Germany to buy it for him. Then they scrounged for parts there and shipped the car and parts to White Post. They undertook the restoration during which they had to fabricate some 1,000 parts that they couldn't find. We're also talking 1,000s of hours. Then they trailered it to Pebble Beach and showed it for Mr. Marriott. It didn't take first so they brought it back to White Post to re-restore to take back the next year. Paul Johnson >> just watch the Pebble Beach show on the tube. the winning car had a >>12,000 man hour restoration. Run the numbers on that at say $75 hour-$100 [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > back to White Post to re-restore to take back the next year. > Paul Johnson I don't think you're wrong on the car... but it was probably a SSK (supercharged) or SSKL (lightweight version.) would love to have either but they're a little out of my price range :( nate Signaturereplace "fly" with "com" to reply. http://home.comcast.net/~njnagel >> ...The owner, Billy Thompson, was telling us of the '37 Mercedes 500SK >> they restored for Williard Marriott (yes, the hotel guy). > I don't think you're wrong on the car... but it was probably a SSK > (supercharged) or SSKL (lightweight version.) would love to have either > but they're a little out of my price range :( It was SSK because I remember Billy saying the K meant Kompressor. And, it was too big to be a lightweight version <G>. Paul Johnson |
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