Hey Scott!! you´re totally right... Restoring a car is not something you can predict exact timming and that stuff... Besides, most owners dont really apreciate the work that "doesn´t shine"... and we.. on our cars usually spend a lot of time and invest a lot of money to do everything right from the inside out...
Most people buy a crappy car and just want to see them shinning.. If it runs bad well... "it´s an old car... it runs as an old car supposed to" and the truth is that most "restored" cars are made of bondo, fully rusted and twisted... My country has this type of "collectors"...
It is really hard to see the way to work just with classic cars being in a poor country with very few people like Uruguay but... I make 1000 dollars a month in the office... It is not hard to tie that up working on cars really so.. It is just an idea but we dont know.. it may work somehow...
BTW... GREAT LOOKING CAMARO Scott... Trully a Badass!... How about the Mach1? Did I miss a lot in my absence?
Thanks D..I did a little research for you & I think your wrong about your country being poor & people not being able to afford quality work..Maybe the average person but there are people who have the money in your country & will pay for top notch work..you just need to seek them out...& prove that you can do the work..The best way to start is by doing a few small fender jobs...patch jobs...etc..& build up a portfolio..Word will travel fast if you give exceptional customer service & of course do better than average work..You need to search out the car clubs & go to a few outings..Here's a few links i found
http://www.montevideoclassiccar.com/
http://www.ccbmwuruguay.com/foro/viewtopic.php?id=2381
Your research is fine but it is not what people trully live here... Politics say that the country is in its way up because of some economics numbers and averages here and there but the people... the guys who get up every morning to go to work are living another reality...
About the classic cars here in my country there is also another reality... About 20 super rich people owns the 80% of the good classic cars here... They also own the classic car clubs, meetings, rallys etc... In fact, the owner of the my company is one of them... recently bought a Mc Laren Mercedes Benz so... imagine his pockets
You have to remember that if you are gonna work with classic cars here.. you are gonna be one of 2 or 3 shops in this matter... You have to be aware that all supplies here cost double than there in the USA so, it is common to spend 20000 dollars restoring a good example of mustang...
I dont know.. almost noone can afford spending 20-30 K on an old useless car... and the one who can, already have his shop...
I think the biggest problem here is not the luck of money but the luck of people... With 3 millon people, my country simply has no demand of an specific job like a profesional car restorer can be...