Yep, welcome to the word of classic car "restoration". BIG difference
between "assembly-line" collision centers and real live Body Shops with
craftsman. These days, you have to search for a shop that will even bother
with "rust". If they can't fix it in a week, they don't want it. Yeah, it
sux to be sure.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Loyal Stern" <loyalz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: IML: Restoration/body work in St. louis
> The prices that i had heard were around $3000- 3500
> from 2 different shops (one was a restoration/custom
> shop & the other was a regular body shop) That seemed
> high in comparison to a newer car that I had that
> someone rear ended & totaled out 3 years ago the
> estimates for that were around the same $3000-$3500
> range. I do understand that they don't know until they
> open it up & see but are these figure at the high end
> of price? This isn't including repainting the car
> because the whole car needs to be repainted, so
> painting the repair spots would be mute.
>
> Loyal
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