Looking for a 928 Restoration Shop
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Looking for a 928 Restoration Shop
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I am looking for a shop who can do a partial restoration of my 1982 928. Interior (front & rear seats, dash, and left door panel), engine (it runs but needs some work), transmission (shifts fairly smooth but has a lot of slop) and electrical (everything seems to work but every time I turn the lights on smoke comes out of the dash). I live in NW Florida near Pensacola. I would like to find a shop in the south east but I am open to pretty much anywhere.
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Paul
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I am looking for a shop who can do a partial restoration of my 1982 928. Interior (front & rear seats, dash, and left door panel), engine (it runs but needs some work), transmission (shifts fairly smooth but has a lot of slop) and electrical (everything seems to work but every time I turn the lights on smoke comes out of the dash). I live in NW Florida near Pensacola. I would like to find a shop in the south east but I am open to pretty much anywhere.
Thank You
Paul
paulrhein@yahoo.com
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Hello.
I am looking for a shop who can do a partial restoration of my 1982 928. Interior (front & rear seats, dash, and left door panel), engine (it runs but needs some work), transmission (shifts fairly smooth but has a lot of slop) and electrical (everything seems to work but every time I turn the lights on smoke comes out of the dash). I live in NW Florida near Pensacola. I would like to find a shop in the south east but I am open to pretty much anywhere.
Thank You
Paul
paulrhein@yahoo.com
I am looking for a shop who can do a partial restoration of my 1982 928. Interior (front & rear seats, dash, and left door panel), engine (it runs but needs some work), transmission (shifts fairly smooth but has a lot of slop) and electrical (everything seems to work but every time I turn the lights on smoke comes out of the dash). I live in NW Florida near Pensacola. I would like to find a shop in the south east but I am open to pretty much anywhere.
Thank You
Paul
paulrhein@yahoo.com
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or they will sublet it out and mark up the prices for their "trouble"
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Hello.
I am looking for a shop who can do a partial restoration of my 1982 928. Interior (front & rear seats, dash, and left door panel), engine (it runs but needs some work), transmission (shifts fairly smooth but has a lot of slop) and electrical (everything seems to work but every time I turn the lights on smoke comes out of the dash). I live in NW Florida near Pensacola. I would like to find a shop in the south east but I am open to pretty much anywhere.
Thank You
Paul
paulrhein@yahoo.com
I am looking for a shop who can do a partial restoration of my 1982 928. Interior (front & rear seats, dash, and left door panel), engine (it runs but needs some work), transmission (shifts fairly smooth but has a lot of slop) and electrical (everything seems to work but every time I turn the lights on smoke comes out of the dash). I live in NW Florida near Pensacola. I would like to find a shop in the south east but I am open to pretty much anywhere.
Thank You
Paul
paulrhein@yahoo.com
We are certainly doing complete restorations on 928's on a daily basis, these days. We do not do the actual painting or upholstery work, in house, but we have highly skilled people that we sublet this work to. We do not, as suggested above, mark up the cost of the paint or the interior work. We encourage people to pay for this work directly. We do charge to disassemble and re-assemble (see below.)
To make sure things are perfectly put back together with the correct hardware in the correct location, we do our own disassembly and reassembly of both the body and the interior. This gives us the chance to clean or replace any of the ansilary pieces or rubber.
As far as the mechanicals/electricals of the car are concerned, since that is virtually all we've done for the past 15 years, you would be hard pressed to find another shop with our levels of skill. When it's all you do, day after day, year after yesr, you get pretty good at it!
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Hello.
I am looking for a shop who can do a partial restoration of my 1982 928. Interior (front & rear seats, dash, and left door panel), engine (it runs but needs some work), transmission (shifts fairly smooth but has a lot of slop) and electrical (everything seems to work but every time I turn the lights on smoke comes out of the dash). I live in NW Florida near Pensacola. I would like to find a shop in the south east but I am open to pretty much anywhere.
Thank You
Paul
paulrhein@yahoo.com
I am looking for a shop who can do a partial restoration of my 1982 928. Interior (front & rear seats, dash, and left door panel), engine (it runs but needs some work), transmission (shifts fairly smooth but has a lot of slop) and electrical (everything seems to work but every time I turn the lights on smoke comes out of the dash). I live in NW Florida near Pensacola. I would like to find a shop in the south east but I am open to pretty much anywhere.
Thank You
Paul
paulrhein@yahoo.com
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Matching "restoration" work with a client's desires and budget is very important.....and takes effort to discuss what the client desires and then effort trying to manage and meet their expectations. I've done cars that people want mechanically restored and are not concerned about the paint or interior being redone (these are already nice looking cars.) I've done paint and interior on cars where the client just wants the mechanicals to be done, but doesn't care about the appearance of the mechanicals. I've done cars that the client wants the engine compartment to be show quality, but doesn't care about the rest of the underside...other than being reliable.
In the end, the cost is all about the time, the parts required, and the desired outcome.
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Suffice it to say, Greg does nice work.
Disclaimer, I'm a little biased, have had a little work done at Precision Motorwerks....
Disclaimer, I'm a little biased, have had a little work done at Precision Motorwerks....
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People seem to think that big money restorations always lead to big money cars. Reality is, that's the exception not the rule. The vast majority of cars are restored for a cost that far exceeds the end value of the vehicle. Then why do people do it? Because they want to.
Watch enough collector car auctions (like I do) and you hear more than any other phrase: "You couldn't build it for that" and these are true statements.
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Furthermore the initial pre-restoration state of the 928 can make a HUGE difference. A 928 that needs a mechanical restoration and a lot of cleaning is vastly different from a 928 that needs paint, interior, and body panels. And that latter grade 928 is vastly less expensive that one that's been stored or driven in very poor environments. I'm now restoring one of that last grade and every single part of the car - every. single. part. - requires remedial work of some sort if not outright replacement.
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My budget to say at first not $100k. My budget is about $12-15K. That includes shipping. Shipping to Cali would pretty much eat the budget!