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Originally Posted by rob love
Generally CMPs are a dog to resell, and you will have a hard time recouping your investment,.
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Too true. Just too high to fit in a garage, getting on in years where their significance is being forgotten. Oh and noisy, slow and drafty to drive.
Add to that the cost of almost every part, equally divided between hard to find originals and even now sometimes hard to find common items that used to be available at UAP.
Just recently I found a list I had put together with estimated costs for what I needed for my HUW project. About 10-12 years ago 'all in' the outstanding need-to-buy items came to about $5000. Now, with most items on the list bought and installed, the REMAINING items I still need (that came to well less than $1000 on my old list) will set me back close to $3,000.
I estimate a ground up CMP restoration, not including labour, would be ~$20,000 to $25,000 to do and maybe get you $5,000 to $10,000 on a good day. Given that dynamic I can't see too many more of them being restored here. That, plus if the starting wreck hasn't been stored indoors there wouldn't be much left to restore.
13-05-23, 16:32
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