Full Nut and Bolt Restoration

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The first question I always ask people is, define concourse restoration (nut and bolt). In many peoples mind a full restoration is complete bodywork and paint, frame cleaned and painted, interior cleaned and needed items replaced and then the driveline cleaned up and restored. I define it as what you get back is a brand new car. Every single component on that car from the engine to the brake switch is torn down, cleaned and rebuilt. Distibutors, carburetor, alternator, fuel pump, water pump, AIR pump, starter, ALL rebuilt and restored. New bushings, seals and bearings in every component on the car. Absolutely NOTHING is left untouched. This in my mind is a concours restoration but this also takes a lot of time and money. Our 69 Yenko Chevelle took just shy of 3000 hours between the bodywork and paint, interior, driveline, chassis restoration, sublet work and then restoring and rebuilding every single component on the car. We had a tad over $50,000 in parts so do the math. Obviously this is not the norm but I will say that most of our LS6 restorations started at $125,000 for a concourse restoration and that was almost 3 years ago since I retired so it would be a lot higher today.