[TR] What do you think ?

[Chip19474 at aol.com]

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 at 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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