Cost of a bare metal resto

Hi there , I'm looking at needing a bare metal resto on my bus , 74 bay from dry usa state , it needs rear arches , a little bit of cill ,and a couple of other bits welding nothing major , then rust stop treating , then painting two colours ,inside needs painting and engine bay , pop top painting ,under sealing ,wheels painting ,and finally a good wax oil in all the rite places ,
Does anyone have any ideas on the cost for this work , cheers .

 

£10k

 

^^^ at least that

Try getting a quote off midland paintworks top work

 

I've had two quotes both around 3.5k so 10 is a bit out dude

 

A good bare metal paint job inside and out is £5k easily

 

Then you dont want a bare metal resto, you want a repaint, £3.5k is miles away and £10k isn't enough

 

So the quotes I've had are good then , I thought it was a lot of money lmao

 

I`ve got a £300 `mates rates` paint job - nothing to write home about looks fine ..
I would go for the 3.5k .....

and then put away another 5k to do it all over again in a few years time

 

I've had two quotes to bare metal and do all the other work I've mentioned , a simple re spray wouldn't be good enough
It's got to go to metal ,

 

If its being done bare metal and rust stopped why would it need doing again in a few years time

 

Because the price is too cheap to cover doing it properly.

 

What is properly tho , I thought bare metalling ,rust stop ,undercoat and paint was proper ? No

 

Sounds a bargain

 

We just can't see how it that can be done for that price. Then again we haven't seen your bus and don't know where you live which makes a big difference.

 

This is a £10k plus bare metal job

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.247569982067394.1073741831.144882895669437&type=3

The man hours involved in the prep / work you can see how it adds up

 

Probably because they won`t replace everything that NEEDS replacing .
If it`s solid now it probably won`t be in a few years ..
Metal quality ain`t what it used to be either , monkey metal is a pretty common currency these days .

 

The last guy wants the bus for 8/10 weeks

 

That makes sense bud thank you

 

We have had a few quotes over the last few days for body finishing and paint, with us having done the welding and initial work. These all came in at the £5k mark so I can easily see a full resto costing the £10k if you are having it all done for you with proper NOS panels, and full panel replacement instead of partial.

However if you are willing to put in a good amount of elbow grease and ask around, you can often find people willing to help out for considerably less and still get a very good finish.

It really depends on what level of finish you want to achieve. We looked at 2 busses next to each other, 1 which had full panel replacement on both rear corners and up to the swage line on the 1/4 panels and one which had the Klocker arches and corner which was in for filling and paint. There was no denying the full panel replacement plus 1/4 panel up to swage line looked straighter, which meant the partial repair will need considerably more filling and smoothing to get a decent finish.

It has certainly caused me some more thought we we send 'Burt' off for acid dipping as we were originally going for the Klocker approach and the £270 a side saving.

 

I wouldn't spend 10 k on my bus would rather sell it and buy a prototype bay done ,it would stand me at 18k done and it just wouldn't be worth that ,