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Originally Posted by dyna mo
Restoring a damaged interior could easily top $10k for that car. Plenty of wood and chrome plating in there which is insanely expensive to replace. Replacing the dash alone could cost $3000, labor being the big expense. You also won't find original seats and such so those will have be custom sewn by hand and all foam and springs replaced, crazy expensive.
Rebuild an original 65 Ford motor would be ~$3000, and a nice paint job maybe $1500. Having to restore the interior would and does easily double the cost of the restoration.
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I've done full concourse to custom interiors in my cars and never spent $10k, even with getting the interior plastic chrome re done.
Seats are not crazy expensive to get restored to stock, the materials can get expensive (on that car it would be vinyl so not expensive at all) and if you go really custom, it can become labour intensive.
A mate of mine is an amazing interior guy and watching him work is really impressive. He just finished a dash and two seats for me, double stitched marine vinyl, black with dark grey stitch. Looks amazing and was $1k(AUD so ~$700 USD) which includes two custom bags to match the interior.
The paint and panel is the most open ended thing you can do on a car. It is impossible to know exactly what is hidden under the paint and how long it will take to fix from looking at a car. Unless of course you don't fix anything and simply paint over the old paint.
I have two cars right now that I will put in a shipping container and send over to whoever it is you can get a nice paint job for $1500. If you are talking only paint and nothing else, well yes ok no worries. The prep work is the real cost of a paint job.