Originally Posted by blownalky3
Scorp
I belive that the shows you linked have cars that cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to build. They spend 15k getting it cleaned up for the show. I highly doubt with it for sale at that price that it garnered any awards.
JMO
This is just my opinion and thats all. not trying to put you down or anything so please dotn take it like that.
My uncle and I built hot rods just like those for major shows and the cost to build htem really aint that high. If you look on my racespace you will see an orange 52 Bel Aire that we started to build and he had to finish in part to myself joining the military. The total on that car was only $60,000. Now if you were to subtract the cost of labor from it it would be around the $30,000- $40,000 range. We also built a 50 Mercury that was supposed to go into the Autorama nation wide for less than that. to get into teh Autorama your car has to be accepted into the show the year before. Also trust me on this one just because a car looks nice as those doesnt mean that the quality is there. My uncle and I have seen top quality cars in big shows still have blemishes in the paint and still win the show.