Reply to "Restoration Estimate Inquiry"

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@gunrunnerjohn posted:
Harry Henning III does restoration of tinplate, and I can assure you a complete restoration isn't cheap, it also takes a lot of time!

We need Earl Scheib *lol*. This reminds me of people watching car auction shows and seeing the prices of the cars and they are shocked when I tell them how much it likely cost to bring the car to the shape it is in and even at the elevated price they likely have more in it than it is worth at the auction. I had an italian sports car that was in pretty rough shape, about 30 years ago I asked a restoration shop how much it would cost to restore it to decent shape (I wasn't looking for concours shape), a rough estimate based on photos, and then they said it would be like 40k...the car def wasn't worth a fraction of that in terms of resale (and I didn't have the money either).

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