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Originally Posted by dyna mo
my experience is not this. open-ended is the bane of interior restoration because, even worse than bodywork, you truly have no idea what you've got or not got until the interior is gutted.
you could not get even 1 seat fully reupholstered for $700 here. 2 benches like in that car would easily be a $2500 reupholstery job. + the dash and you are already at $5000+. replacing the carpet adds another $1000
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I've never experienced this, i'm definitely going to ask my mate and see what he thinks next time I see him.
I'm just thinking the most expensive interior i've ever done was $5k(AUD) and it is absolutely mint. 1960's car and it was really flogged out in the interior - all replaced to standard, seats, carpet, hood liner, door cards, dash, console. Plastic chrome was ontop of this forget the cost maybe $1k(AUD) from memory.
Looking back at that example, I remember that was only that much because we had to source the materials from a specific wholesaler because I wanted it to exactly match standard (standard had a pattern that you press into the material - hotpress?? forget what the process is called).
Paint on the other hand, well $5k gets you no where and gets burnt up real quick if you are paying for all the prep work - removing rust and straightening panels costs a bloody fortune
