Money in restoration???
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I’ve never worked in a resto shop before, just curious about the money compared to collision. thanks.
In the right place their is.
I think Restoration shops are just like bodyshops everywhere when it comes to pay. There are both good and bad. Personally, some of the restoration shops that I have work at just part time paid more per hour than your best collision shops. Probably because they are not under the constraints of a database or an insurance company regulating and controlling costs. In addition, many of these craftsmen have some specialized talents that customers are willing to pay more for.
Brad Larsen
I think also if your geared for it and thats what you doing it can be very lucrative but to bring space wasters (as I call them)into the average body shop is :dry: a waste of space …and I bet 80% of the shops out there have one in the back corner…a space waster …when the last one left , boss told me if he ever looks at another one , I’m to wackim in the head with the 5 lb :woohoo: B)
between the production and resto shops i’ve worked at, the money to be made for a tech is relatively the same (unless you work at a flat rate shop that lets you cut every corner there is). i think it all depends where you are, how serious of a resto shop you work at, and most importantly how talented you are.
i’ve been through 3 helpers at my shop and paid them more than they could make at any production shop in the valley.There was a shop in town that did both collision and restoration. Two years ago they got out of the resto part and are now strictly collison.
I have done the resto thing and it didnt pay any more than collision, but when there is no collision work to do ya gotta do something! :dry:we are the only shop in town and the slow times are less and less ….in fact 2 month back log.. do good work and theres no where else to go stone
3 collision jobs pay as much if not more than 1 restojob in my area why other than the love of old cars would i want to be married ta 1 job but if ya know how ta charge for it why not;)
I spent a little time in a restoration shop. I enjoyed the work, lack of pressure and being allowed to do a quality job, and the end results. The pay was another story though. Compared to what I had been making in Collision repair shops it was hard to make a living ( I went from flat rate to a low hourly wage). I’m sure that in the right shop, restoration could pay as well as collision repar…
TIME AND MATERIAL I never price one out anymore to many variables.As for money being in it yes their is as long as the customer has it. We just finished a 71 z28,79 elcamino,69 jag xke and have a 60 vette in process and a 64 fairlane tbolt clone we started on friday.
sounds like your specialty …. your tooled for it no doubt??
We have 2 bays just for restorations but 99 percent is collision work.myself and the owner are the only ones who will work on them everyone else claims there is no money in them lol.the xke had 108 paint hours on it and I get 45% of it plus my salary I laugh all the way to the bank.I have more time to work on them.The funny part is the guy who owns the car was all in a huff about the final bill which he was well aware of the possibilty of the cost invovled in redoing the jag.He had a shop about 45 mins away do the interior and mechanicals they only do euro car restoration and just the engine and interior has cost him 45k now he doesn’t feel bad about what we charged him.The owner of that shop went over what we did and found zip wrong with it.Kinda makes you feel good when someone who has done probably 50 of them gives you a compliment.
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