[TR] nice price or crack pipe?

[Greg Lemon]

My story and work performed on the TR250 match how Gary did his TR3 very closely.  The major difference being I didn't keep track of my labor hours, but a significant amount of my free time for about two and  a half years, I’d say 1600 hours at least.  I actually think my bill was maybe a little less than $15,500, but not too much less.  I would also have to add to my labor hours a lot of time spent on ebay and the internet looking for the best deal on parts.  Since I needed most everything I ordered a lot of stuff from the Roadster Factory, just picking what I needed from their weekly sales.  Buy buying parts like that does have its pitfalls (picking up deals rather than what you need for what you are working on at the moment), I did buy a few duplicates when I didn't remember I had already bought something.

Greg Lemon
TR250

From: Gary Nafziger 
Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 7:38 PM
To: triumphs at autox.team.net 
Subject: [TR] nice price or crack pipe?


I restored a 59 tr-3 which was in awful shape.  Close to salvage but it did run.  I put in new floors, inner and outer sills, and new trunk floor.  Replaced pretty big chunks of rust from both front fenders, all new brackets that held car to frame.  I did the steel replacement, all the bondo skim coat and primer.  Went through tranny.  Dis-assembled engine and re-assembled after machine shop did they're thing.  Of course, all new interior and new tonneau, top, and top frame cover.  I did have friends do the final spray in BRG.
I tried to keep track of my hours and ended up with 1600 hours.  I added up all purchased parts and also included labor I paid to others (machining, chrome shop ect)
Parts and labor came to around $15,500.  The final cost, depends on what I choose to pay myself!  If I'm worth $10 an hour then I have approx. $30,000 in my resto.  I'd like to forget about my labor and think I have a restored $15,000 tr-3.
There were times of frustration for sure, but in general it was one of the most satisfying things I've done in my life.



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