RE: Floor Pan

[Paul Lennemann <pjlenn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Can't offer an opinion on your situation, I can only relate mine.  I 
took mine to a shop to get an estimate on rust repair & paint.  To fix 
the rust in the dog leg of the front fender, the rear wheel arch, the 
lower 1/4's and a little on the rocker panels the quote was $9000.00!  
Including $2500.00 in materials, and that's with me providing all of the 
repair panels and R&R'ing all of the stainless!  So maybe the escalation 
in prices in our cars has also led to an escalation at the body shop.  
Or they just didn't want our jobs so they bid them high.

Paul L.
'63 Sport Fury
440/727
http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/ml-lennemann63.html

Dave Harms wrote:
> 
> I am in need of replacing the driver side front floor pan on my car. I 
> know I can get the floor pan for about $100. I stopped by a body shop 
> Friday to get a quote on what it would cost to replace the pan and was 
> shocked to get a cost of $500 for about 10 hours of work. Does this seem 
> 
> reasonable? Seems to me that the old junk could be cut out in less than 
> an hour, prep car to receive new pan about an hour, cut new pan and weld 
> 
> in in about 3 hours. Total time=5 hours at $50/hr is $250 which seems 
> more reasonable to me. I'm making the assumption that being as it's a 
> body shop, they've got the latest in tools and technology to "get in and 
> 
> get out" of projects. Am I out of wack here? BTW, the car has no carpet 
> in it, door panels are on it and seat can easily be removed.
> 
> 64 Polara 500 Convertible



Paul L.
'63 Sport Fury
440/727
http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/ml-lennemann63.html


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