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Post by pkrboo on Jul 29, 2019 12:06:58 GMT
I see someone in Heanor(I think) has bought your old early Bay with that awesome interior you made.
Its still looking very good mate
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Post by Zed on Jul 29, 2019 17:19:37 GMT
I see someone in Heanor(I think) has bought your old early Bay with that awesome interior you made. Its still looking very good mate So I hear, they joined here yesterday to say hello and I spent an hour or two chatting via PM and digging out TLB links to the resto/Show us yours threads. I originally got it 8 years ago - eek - how time flies...  |
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Post by pkrboo on Jul 29, 2019 17:48:54 GMT
Yeah I pointed them in this direction. Quite a few people wanting you to do an interior for them too. I said it was a one off
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Post by Zed on Jul 29, 2019 19:12:26 GMT
Yeah I pointed them in this direction. Quite a few people wanting you to do an interior for them too. I said it was a one off Good man. I'm shit with wood unless I rout everything along a straight edge which takes forever and makes one hell of a mess! If I was going to do anything VW again I'd try and stick close to basic service stuff, nothing interior, no welding, no painting. How's the Subaru 2.5? And of course - How's the new business going? The prices I've seen you throw out there seem cheap compared to others doing the same. There's a bloke on Samba who charges $25,000! He buys new short blocks for around $2,000 which let's be honest is cheap as chips next to VW air-cooled stuff, then transfers all the crap from a second hand engine. |
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Post by pkrboo on Jul 29, 2019 19:58:27 GMT
Yeah I pointed them in this direction. Quite a few people wanting you to do an interior for them too. I said it was a one off Good man. I'm shit with wood unless I rout everything along a straight edge which takes forever and makes one hell of a mess! If I was going to do anything VW again I'd try and stick close to basic service stuff, nothing interior, no welding, no painting. How's the Subaru 2.5? And of course - How's the new business going? The prices I've seen you throw out there seem cheap compared to others doing the same. There's a bloke on Samba who charges $25,000! He buys new short blocks for around $2,000 which let's be honest is cheap as chips next to VW air-cooled stuff, then transfers all the crap from a second hand engine. 2.5 is going well but needs new rings i think, burns a bit of oil. The guy in America is charging similar to what everyone over there seems to charge. He doesn't like sharing the odd idea either. Bit of a **** IMO New business is slow, got one conversion booked in. I think I will mainly be busy in the winter obviously, which is fine so I can do poptopkitchen in the summer. |
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Post by Zed on Jul 29, 2019 21:57:44 GMT
Agreed, he's a knob. But he probably isn't a knob. One thing I noticed when Zedding in the bus garage was that more I refused to do a job, the more money the potential clients offered! When I said they wouldn't want to pay what it really cost to restore a bus it was invariably "how do you know how much I'd pay?" One guy, when I said £20-£30,000 said he'd leave it with me to do £2k work a month until it was finished and I still refused, mainly because I'd had my fill of shitty grinding and welding.  I used to wonder if some of these guys were getting extreme harassment from their partners to get it off the drive. |
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Post by chad on Aug 4, 2019 12:59:03 GMT
I think part of it is that you read all these horror stories about restorations and if you find someone with a good/very good reputation you do the man-maths to justify what can seem to be a ridiculous amount. If may be a f***ing large amount of money but you can probably add it onto your mortgage at a ridiculously low interest rate and you shouldn't lose a large amount on depreciation. It can make financial sense in certain circumstances, not a lot but enough if you've always wanted one.
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Post by Zed on Aug 5, 2019 6:32:08 GMT
Maybe 10 years ago, but parts have got ridiculous and van prices have gone the other way?
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I used to wonder if some of these guys were getting extreme harassment from their partners to get it off the drive.