Re: restorations near champaign, illinois

[Godfrey DiGiorgi <ramarren@domain.elided>]

Jason, I don't know what you mean by "restored". $3000 will barely buy 
you a decent paint job around here (San Jose, CA). A restoration/concours 
overhaul of a Spider is probably closer to $25,000 worth of labor if the 
car needs the usual amount of work that a 20+ year old car needs to 
'restore' it.

My FrancoSpider project is costing me about $8000, before paint and 
interior refurbishment. That's: meld the best parts from the '82 parts 
car and '78 wreck into the good '79 chassis, with all the rewiring and 
other details associated, overhaul the cylinder head and fit new 
pistons/cylinders, put a new top on it, set up the suspension properly. 

I figure doing the interior up nicely will set me back about $1800 and a 
quality paint job another $3000 on top of this. It won't be concours but 
it will be one nice Spider. 

Godfrey

>anyone know of good places to have an alfa restored in the champaign,
>bloomington, danville, kankakee area that wont set me back more than $3000
>or so?

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