Posted by Bruce on Friday, February 04, 2005 at 10:19PM :
In Reply to: Swivel Frame Fire Truck posted by Walt Snelling on Friday, February 04, 2005 at 9:44PM :
Museum quality ? There is a wide range of "museum quality " out there. I take it you are talking about close to a 100 point restoration ?
Be prepared to pay. One of your biggest costs will be the body work. The truck will need to be dipped to get rid of the paint and the rust. Any body man who says different is only going half way. These trucks had a lot of bare metal left to the elements when they were shipped from the factory. A top notch job will fix that little mistake. making the outside look purty will not be the way to go. You will be trying to stop the rust in all seams ,inside the doors ,under the dash , in the fender beads and a number of other common areas. All of this work will cost many man hours which will add up to large cash. 30 to 40 grand is not unusual and some would say that price is cheap.
I have a 1929 packard,4 dr sedan. It is very straight and needs a full resto. I figure it would cost me about 30 grand to do the job myself. The car in restored state might get 30 grand on a good day. So restoring the car is not worth the effort.
If it was a convertable bodied phaeton the car would cost about the same to restore and be worth about 250,grand. Even if I did not plan on selling the car,restoring it would be worth my time and money.
Thats just my take.
Yes I plan on dipping my Carryall. Not only that I have already blown out all the rivets on one front fender and am glad I did. There is no paint between those sandwhiched surfaces. I am going to fix that problem and join the panels together with panel adhesive bfore I rivet them back together.
Take care
Bruce
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