I don't know about the other shops out there that do a lot of f body cars what their labor rates are.
I work at a antique car restoration shop and we are $95 a hour for paint and body work.
It amazes me how quickly it adds up.
Seems to me like someone would be money ahead buying a brand new Camaro body.
I know on the old Ford bodies people can buy a new Brookville body for less than paying us to do rust repair and straighten panels.
We recently had a customer that bought a 1931 ford slant windshield 4 door sedan model a off eBay sight unseen.
Looked rough before we had it media blasted. When it came back it was super rough. Car got wrecked in the driver side cowl door post area at some point in its life and was never fixed right. The media blaster left a chunk of bondo there for us to see how thick it was. It was a 1" thick. And the rest of the car was rotted everywhere. Needless to say the guy had $30k in just body work when we were done fixing that mess.
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