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What do people think about these people?
Their prices for cars and parts seem totally ridiculous. On E bay at present body mounts kit £200 when paddocks sell the same kit for £70.
 
They really are expensive, are they the best? some of there Classics are over £100k
I wonder what a full restoration would cost from them?
 
I've often looked at ads for totally restored vehicles and wondered what their definition of totally restored is. If I was going to do a full restoration of my 109 station wagon and do as much of the work as possible myself, I reckon the final cost would be in the region of £20k that would include having the engine, gearbox, transfer box and diffs professionally overhauled and a professional respray. If you gave the same vehicle to a restorer and asked for the same spec the cost would be at least double that. At the end of it all you would have a nice vehicle that was worth less than half of what you'd spent £100k for a properly restored Classic rangerover sounds about right.

Col
 
I had a look at them at the Bicester Landrover meet, I would be very surprised if you get any change from 100K for a classic rebuild. If you go restomod then I would think £150K plus would be more like the price range.

The blue body shell they had on show there , freshly painted had a nice set of finger prints visible in the paint.....something to remember the guy who rebuilt it by.

Now the JIA Chieftan , that looks like a nice motor for sub 200K...LOL

Cheers
 
I've often looked at ads for totally restored vehicles and wondered what their definition of totally restored is. If I was going to do a full restoration of my 109 station wagon and do as much of the work as possible myself, I reckon the final cost would be in the region of £20k that would include having the engine, gearbox, transfer box and diffs professionally overhauled and a professional respray. If you gave the same vehicle to a restorer and asked for the same spec the cost would be at least double that. At the end of it all you would have a nice vehicle that was worth less than half of what you'd spent £100k for a properly restored Classic rangerover sounds about right.

Col
I read one of their build logs a while back, the acid dipped every metal part to get back to absolute bare metal, then worked on repairing it all. Not a lot of original metal left, arguably a new car. After a few customer upgrades were added that car was valued at a few grand over 200k.
 
I read one of their build logs a while back, the acid dipped every metal part to get back to absolute bare metal, then worked on repairing it all. Not a lot of original metal left, arguably a new car. After a few customer upgrades were added that car was valued at a few grand over 200k.
200k, wow

Col
 
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