Bear with me while I wrap my head around my future Bronco plan.
I have been watching the listings for fully restored Bronco's that have been listed for sale on Bat, Facebook, craigslist, etc and it seems that I will be in this for $60-75k if I go that route. That's a lot of money but I am willing to pay for getting exactly what I want. But....
I am wondering if I wouldn't be better off finding a decent one for $20-30k and paying to have it professionally restored. I have a specific color scheme I want so any rig I buy will need to be repainted regardless. Are there shops that will do a complete rebuild (engine, fuel injection, transmission, disk brake conversion, rust removal, paint, etc)? Any idea on a ball park cost? If I spend $30k on the purchase I would have $40k in the budget for all of the listed upgrades and have exactly what I want for the same $70k as I am seeing them sell for.
Thoughts?
BTW, I am fully capable of doing everything mechanical on the rig I just don't want to. I am tired, lol. I just spent 4 years doing an owner build on a 10,000 sqft winery building, I have a full time job, run a growing winery on my 'weekends', and I have to build our home starting next year. Like Julia Roberts said in Erin Bokovich, "I am really quite tired."
I have been watching the listings for fully restored Bronco's that have been listed for sale on Bat, Facebook, craigslist, etc and it seems that I will be in this for $60-75k if I go that route. That's a lot of money but I am willing to pay for getting exactly what I want. But....
I am wondering if I wouldn't be better off finding a decent one for $20-30k and paying to have it professionally restored. I have a specific color scheme I want so any rig I buy will need to be repainted regardless. Are there shops that will do a complete rebuild (engine, fuel injection, transmission, disk brake conversion, rust removal, paint, etc)? Any idea on a ball park cost? If I spend $30k on the purchase I would have $40k in the budget for all of the listed upgrades and have exactly what I want for the same $70k as I am seeing them sell for.
Thoughts?
BTW, I am fully capable of doing everything mechanical on the rig I just don't want to. I am tired, lol. I just spent 4 years doing an owner build on a 10,000 sqft winery building, I have a full time job, run a growing winery on my 'weekends', and I have to build our home starting next year. Like Julia Roberts said in Erin Bokovich, "I am really quite tired."