Andrew,
I logged all of my sweat equity (hours I spent working on my car in my
restorer's shop) plus my own personal hours working at home and it came to 1151
hours. Needless to say those hours were non-billable!!! I'd have to go
back through my invoices to add up the billable hours from the shop owner
for things I couldn't do but I would say that 1200 to 1400 total hours would
not be unreasonable for a complete body-off-frame restoration of a TR6.
So, using my hours and a labor rate of $75/hour for example, if someone
were to hire a shop to entirely restore a TR6 from "bottom-up" to concours
condition, the labor component would be at least $90,000.....a number that is
absolutely frightening by any measure of sanity if that person was doing
the restoration in hopes of reselling at a profit!
Chip Krout
Delaware Valley Triumphs, Ltd.
Skippack, PA
1976 TR6 CF57822U
In a message dated 12/28/2009 6:28:40 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
auprichard@comcast.net writes:
List:
Someone recently asked me how many hours it would take to complete a
frame-off restoration on an old British sports car like a TR.
Not withstanding all the variables of such a request (need for extensive
bodywork, engine rebuild, upgrades, etc.), I replied 1200 hours - based on
6
hrs/weekend for 4 years for my last project. But what do others think ??
Andrew Uprichard
1962 TR3B tucked up for the winter
1959 TR3A on its way to a new owner in Europe
16 hours into the latest project
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