[mrbeverlyhills]

Why would you ask anyone to wear a kick me sign? If you have a old 911 then you have "kick me" branded on your forehead already!

I just did an interior complete and if I ignore the cost of the sport seat cores and just allow for the recovering then the interior complete was $9,000. Tony did the seats and Levon and George did the rest as well or better than anyone I have ever seen.

Gary is right: go find door panels and pockets to replace the ubiquitous rs door panels every moron put on his car, roughly $1,500 for driver quality installed. Headliner with new seals is actually $1,000, dash $1200, carpet $1400, rear quarters and seats $1,000, front seats in leather $3,000 (vinyl is $2400 so why not pony up for the leather) where are we......$9100....hmmmmm, wait, steering wheel recover by Tony $300, shift knob $200, coat hooks and light bezel chrome $100,seat belts and retractors $200.....Oh wow the interior is beautiful but those gauges look terrible now: new set complete from NoHo Speedo $1,000... I make that $9,900. Now you better hope that when all of the carpet and headliner came out there is no rust in there because that could add up to even more but I would say that unless you know the car an interior complete is $10,000.

Paint is $5,000 for a basic nice driver, chrome is $2,000 and rubber $1,500, wheels are $1,000 and tires $450.

So at a $10 purchase, 10k inside and 10k outside you have a $30,000 car that needs a motor. Add 10k. And it is a T?

You can shave $5,000 of the numbers above-just add 12 months to the delivery date while you do it yourself but also add back $5,000 in jewelry for the wife.

It starts to make sense (especially in this economy) to buy a car completely done from someone who knows what he is doing for a fraction of the price it takes to restore one yourself.