| Let's say that you have decided that you want to | | | | sure that you pay close attention to the car you |
| restore a classic muscle car, so now what do you do, | | | | buy, ask the owner a lot of questions, the only dumb |
| you've already bought the car, let's make the | | | | question, is the one not asked. |
| experience a lot of fun for you, call up your best | | | | Make sure that you know the average price that |
| friend and let him, or her in on your ideas about the | | | | people are paying for the car that you want, ebay is |
| car. | | | | a good place to start you research on the car you |
| Invite them to help you with your project, this is | | | | want, notice the bidding, notice the buy it now price, |
| what I done on the car that I'm restoring right now, | | | | and see if the bidding goes above the buy it now. |
| my friend and I have begun the restoration project, | | | | Research for selling prices, get a healthy knowledge |
| and started bouncing ideas off of each other to get | | | | of what people are paying for the car your going to |
| the best product possible, and something this simple | | | | restore, if your selling it learn about it first, know the |
| can really make the project go a lot smoother. | | | | questions to ask, decode the vin, check out the |
| Don't place a high priority on speed, this usually make | | | | engine casting number, check the rpo codes on the |
| the project go south for the winter, plan carefully | | | | engine, if they don't match, don't second guess it, |
| the outcome of the restoration project, get your | | | | and don't buy it. |
| shop, or work area in order, make sure that | | | | If you don't care about the originality of the car, or |
| between the two of you, all the tools that you need | | | | you'd like to hod rod it a bit, make sure that the |
| are at your disposal. | | | | things that you plan to do to the car will help it sell, |
| Make sure that you document things with pictures, | | | | not everybody cares about originality, some guys like |
| and paper work as you begin the dis-assembly of the | | | | hot rods, and they always will. |
| car of the car, the object here is to have a lot of | | | | I'm one of those people, an original car will sell for |
| fun, rather you are building the car for yourself, or to | | | | more money in most cases, but they can be hard to |
| sell, if you plan to sell the car, you'll need to keep the | | | | sell, people are very picky about the restoration |
| cost as low as possible if you want to make money | | | | process when it come to originality, and they should |
| on the sale. | | | | be, if you sell it as an original car, be prepared to |
| Do some research on the car, and find out what | | | | answer a lot of questions, or be prepared not to sell |
| their selling for at the time of your restoration, if you | | | | it if you don't. |
| buy at a low price, you have more room to play with | | | | Don't think of it as hard, think of it as a must do to |
| the restoration process, make sure that you inspect | | | | sell the car, now if the car is custom, you'll probably |
| the car before you buy it, or you will run in to some | | | | have to answer a lot less questions to the people |
| huge problems during the restoration process. | | | | looking to buy the car, because they know it's not a |
| Always remember that if the price looks to good to | | | | factory original, but know that it's easy to lose |
| be true, it probably is, don't second guess it, make | | | | money if you go over board with the mods. |