Thread: 1940 buick special restomod

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Welcome to CHR! Dave's right on as usual! I suggest that you invest some time at shows and cruise-ins looking at the cars and talking to the people to hone in on what you want to end up with. I salute you're intro statement that you will not be building, but instead will be "...hiring the work out" instead of "posing" as a builder when you know you're a check writer (and there's nothing wrong with check writer's!!) I will tell you that for the type of car you describe (existing old iron, crate engine, new suspension, tricked out interior, etc) you can buy a finished car a Whoooooole lot cheaper than you can have one custom built paying shop rates for everything. The added benefit is that you can have a car much quicker, too! If you do decide to have one built from scratch, and have the ready cash to fund the whole project up front (probably $150k minimum, I'd say, paying for all the labor considering your "prize winning" statement, and add another zero if you're talking the BIG prizes) then I would suggest you research the builders, find a guy who you trust to do it all, or at least to do all of the fab, mechanical and electrical in one shop, define the end car he's building and turn him loose. If you try to shop around for bits & pieces from different shops you may end up with a camel instead of a horse, and it will be an OLD camel before it's done. Just my $0.02, being still involved with a first build, and loving every minute of it.