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Originally Posted by kevbo
Alex, might you be willing to post the materials / parts / costs for this project? This is truly inspiring!!
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Thank you! To be honest I've been meaning to get all the invoices from pelican and other suppliers to create a spreadsheet, but I just haven't made the time for it. At this point I'm almost scared to make it. I have ballpark figures for each step but nothing concrete. If you want to know what any particular step costs like paint/body, electrical, interior etc I can give you a pretty good estimate of what it would cost to do it the way I did it.
Much of the time tools are what ended up making a project expensive, and having restored a car in the past I had an advantage in that sense. For instance in paint the most expensive thing was the Spies Hecker clear coat. However, I didn't want to use my harbor freight spray gun to do the final coats so I bought myself a tekna that cost almost as much as the clear, around $400. When you consider that the most reasonable paint job estimate I got was $4500 after having doing all the metal and filler work myself, I think the $400 spray gun was justified. I estimate the materials for paint put me in the ballpark of $1700 to $1800 including the spray gun, primer, filler, sandpaper, base, and clear.
Doing this car would be unaffordable if I had someone do it for me, especially since it's a "Porsche."