[DW SD]

Not to knock anything coming out of our favorite shops, but since they do work at $80 to $100 per hour, they are accustomed to trying to get things done quickly. And details can be overlooked. No one is perfect. At the end of the day, a guy in the garage might be better at building the cars than a shop, especially, if he can get the right advice about which parts, the hot setup, etc.. It really just depends upon who is doing the work and how meticulous they are.

I believe my own car is worth about $40k to the right buyer. It comes with "papers" or provenance as it was written up in Excellence. That would likely add some to the value to the right buyer. It is also highly documented around here, which is a "trail" for the next owner.

All that said, at $40k, it isn't worth much more than the sum of the parts. The paint, FG parts and body work making up about $10k of the parts. $40k would offer me about zero $ for hundreds of hours of my work.

And, were I selling, I would be glad to have any shop evaluate my work against their own. Were I buying, I'd be inclined to evaluate the caliber of the work, as opposed to name of the shop that built it. I would have high expectations if Zuffenhaus or TRE built it, though.

In a nutshell, I think the car is worth the sum of the parts + up to 100% premium if the buyer likes the modifications and the quality of the execution.

Doug