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it's not like you get this and this for 10K
and this this and this for 15K and so on as the pricing goes up .
it's what your car needs to have done and for the budget you have to work with .
not every car will need the exact same things done . some cars you can leave the glass in if there is no rust to deal with under the seals . at times you can just take a piece of rope and slide it under the glass seals to lift it away from the body to paint it .
just like not all cars need a new front suspension pan .
when it comes to refinishing a car even the top coat ( paint) costs range greatly .
you can buy enamel paint and the cost will be pretty low cost 500 or 600 hundred for the materials or you can go with top of the line top coats and you could spend thousands just on the materials for that .
you can do what is called a peal and ship ( you unmask it and don't color sand and buff it ) to spending days color sanding and buffing it and every thing in between.
that too you can spend nothing on to a few grand on .
then there is does the car need to be stripped to bare metal ?
some time no not at all to maybe you only have to say strip the hood to bare metal .
you see what i'm getting at not all two cars are the same so it's not a cut and dry thing to costs and what you get for the cost .
then there is the shops and shops over head this too effects costs .
the labor rate in different states and even with in the same state will very . the southern part of CT. ( closer to NY city stamford norwalk area) has a higher labor rate then say were i am on the shore line of CT. ( new haven area) .
before i retired the over head at my restoration shop would make your head spin just my electric bill every month was higher then what all the over head is now at my little one man shop .
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