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Muscle Car Restoration – A Fun Project
Let's say that you have decided that you want to restore a classic muscle car, so now what do you do, you've already bought the car, let's make the experience a lot of fun for you, call up your best friend and let him, or her in on your ideas about the car.
Invite them to help you with your project, this is what I done on the car that I'm restoring right now, my friend and I have begun the restoration project, and started bouncing ideas off of each other to get the best product possible, and something this simple can really make the project go a lot smoother.
Don't place a high priority on speed, this usually make the project go south for the winter, plan carefully the outcome of the restoration project, get your shop, or work area in order, make sure that between the two of you, all the tools that you need are at your disposal.
Make sure that you document things with pictures, and paper work as you begin the dis-assembly of the car of the car, the object here is to have a lot of fun, rather you are building the car for yourself, or to sell, if you plan to sell the car, you'll need to keep the cost as low as possible if you want to make money on the sale.
Do some research on the car, and find out what their selling for at the time of your restoration, if you buy at a low price, you have more room to play with the restoration process, make sure that you inspect the car before you buy it, or you will run in to some huge problems during the restoration process.
Always remember that if the price looks to good to be true, it probably is, don't second guess it, make sure that you pay close attention to the car you buy, ask the owner a lot of questions, the only dumb question, is the one not asked.
Make sure that you know the average price that people are paying for the car that you want, ebay is a good place to start you research on the car you want, notice the bidding, notice the buy it now price, and see if the bidding goes above the buy it now.
Research classiccartrader.com for selling prices, get a healthy knowledge of what people are paying for the car your going to restore, if your selling it learn about it first, know the questions to ask, decode the vin, check out the engine casting number, check the rpo codes on the engine, if they don't match, don't second guess it, and don't buy it.
If you don't care about the originality of the car, or you'd like to hod rod it a bit, make sure that the things that you plan to do to the car will help it sell, not everybody cares about originality, some guys like hot rods, and they always will.
I'm one of those people, an original car will sell for more money in most cases, but they can be hard to sell, people are very picky about the restoration process when it come to originality, and they should be, if you sell it as an original car, be prepared to answer a lot of questions, or be prepared not to sell it if you don't.
Don't think of it as hard, think of it as a must do to sell the car, now if the car is custom, you'll probably have to answer a lot less questions to the people looking to buy the car, because they know it's not a factory original, but know that it's easy to lose money if you go over board with the mods.
1969 Camaro Restoration
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