[davepl]

The truck was a special case, a bit of a favor or "thank you" I think, since they don't normally work this way, but I sent them the bare cab and chassis on the restored frame. They just did the metal work and paint, and installed everything that touches paint. That was at a fixed price of $25K plus metal work for the Longhorn seams and some extra holes, and might have included chrome, I don't recall now.

We couldn't come to a fixed-price agreement on my convertible 2+2 so I am doing it locally, because it was SUCH a basket case that I couldn't do an open-ended deal. But if your work is fairly well understood, there shouldn't be too many surprises.

But if you take a rust '69 Camaro and drop it off, you can come back later with a $250,000.00 check and drive a brand-new Camaro home, I imagine. So it depends on how much sweat equity you put in as well.