240Z: Body shop guy visiting me
NEWS 🙂 Today i had the bodyshop guy here checking out my cars. The plan was to hear his thoughts and get a future plan for how it’s gonna be done. and that’s what happend:
The very nice guy showed up and checked my cars thoroughly for about 1,5 hours and explaining me a lot of things and showing me alot of things i haven’t seen. also he explained about his previously owned JDM cars and the people he knows etc.
Note that he doesn’t look very happy when i made a photo, but afterwords i explained about my blog and then he was happy agian 🙂
And here’s the plan:
After checking both cars he mentioned it would make more sense to repair the black chassis and use the white one for spare-pieces because the white is more patched up and damaged while the black has only minor repairs and usual rust spots.
He also mentioned that he’s a fabricator bodyguy and can make any kind of bodypanels by himself.
He quoted me 15 grand for a completely restored base shell including the bolt-on panels. but also explained it could easily be more work discovered at work. im ok with that.
Also he explained how i should continue: Store the whit car like i did, totally strip down the black chassis and have the paint stripped down from doors, hatch, hood, etc and have them primered. Then create a rolling jig for the black car and then i can deliver it for him to work. He also explained about how payment works with this kind of projects and was very kind and nice and seemed pretty interrested in this kind of stuff and has a big knowledge in japanese classics (which is rare in switzerland). In fact he even gave me a few contacts to people in the scene i’ll contact during the next days!
So this gives me a whole truckload of motivation and i’m feeling i know where this project goes during the next months! great 🙂
5 Comments
bryan
15k USD? I know this might be a complicated question, but what does that include? would it be worth looking for a new shell?
bryan
or 15k SEK? 🙂 …
bryan
due to a google error, i meant franc’s … speaking of which, want to meet up sometime? i’ll be in europe for the rest of the year looking for things to do, wouldnt mind a trip to your area … i’m actually going to be in belfort, france in 2 weeks…
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I live in the top end of switzerland a few hours away from france. if you want to visit let me know 🙂
15 grand might sound expensive, but work in switzerland always is expansive and we’re talking about a high-end restoration / rebuild. the car will be better than new when done and a lot of panels need to be custom fabricated.
I also thought about cheaper shells, but unrestored shells in a usable state usually cost around 7 grand and you still might to invester another 7 to have it restored so at the end no big difference, plus i “saved” a shell when i restore the ones o got 🙂
bryan
lets do it man! love to see the projects… I’ll be visiting belfort several times in the next few months and i’ll have a rental car. It’s so close to switzerland that i actually fly there, rent the car, and come back over the border.. next trip might be 2 months out so i’ll let you know when it gets closer, but think about things going on, maybe i can schedule it well and come over on the weekend.