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Originally Posted by Overdriven
I know exactly what you mean Josh and completely understand. Buying new bolts and grommets that nobody will ever see. At the same time, he will know though and that does bother some people. I see going that far as a bit of a "waste" too, and not just because of the type of car either.
As for shops or car companies not going that far in a restoration, I take it you haven't spent much time around the "chalk mark" resto crowd. I owe some of my anal tendencies to the time I spent around a couple corvette restorers in my area. Doing what that guy did to the Honda is par for the course to them. Back in the mid 90's one guy spent $25k on just the body and paint work. They actually unbonded all the factory seams in the body shell and started from scratch. Sick stuff. But that was a 990 point (out of 1000) car that won ever single award in the vette world including the Duntov award. Back then everyone thought he guy was crazy, he had $125k in the car, when most big block 66 vettes didn't top $50k at auction. A few years ago he may have been able to get it back though.
Either way, thanks for sharing the thread. Always interesting to see how far some peoe will go with cars.
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Oh i know exactly what you mean by "chalk mark", and that stuff is kinda cool actually. Its called a "concourse" where they take them back to exact factory condition, even adding flaws to the car like what might have been done at the factory like range peel in the paint, overspray etc. Pretty crazy stuff.