Restoration Costs Spreadsheet for '69 S4 SE FHC Elan

PostPost by: SantaBarbaraS4 » Fri May 26, 2017 6:23 pm

As I embarked on tearing apart my late fathers '69 Elan which had sat uncovered in the Southern California sun for 20 years, I suddenly realized I had opened a financial Pandora's box. With many parts completely destroyed or rusted out and others salvageable with varying amounts of effort, I had no way of keeping track of how much everything was going to cost once the rebuilding began. I knew I needed a way of triaging what to fix, what I could improvise and what I had to buy new.

I spent the afternoon yesterday cutting, pasting and reformatting the parts list from the Wiki page to build my own restoration manual with columns for vendors and costs. I cannot upload the entire 195 page document, so I've attached the first 30 pages in PDF. I have it in Pages for iOS as well. DM me if you'd like me to send it you the entire 7.5 MB document.

Once again into the breech!
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Restoration Workbook 1-30.pdf
Elan Restoration Manual
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PostPost by: bulfin » Fri May 26, 2017 7:53 pm

Nice job! Great documentation if you sell the car. Not sure I want to know what I have spent on mine though :D .

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PostPost by: elansprint » Sat May 27, 2017 7:50 am

Bob I think you mean your not sure you want the wife to know how much ?
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PostPost by: el-saturn » Sat May 27, 2017 4:14 pm

our cars must retain their mythical status for a married couple, which means: parts are cheap, even if they aren't, major parts like a steel crank were a give away AND the value of the car is no higher than 20grand US (= SFr) ! ..............and that's the classified information which i share with HER! sandy: keeping the myths moving!
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PostPost by: MykeLotus » Mon May 29, 2017 2:31 pm

Hello,

lots of work...;-)
I would very much like to have such a very helpful file. Could you please mail me the "full length" Version ?

thanks, Myke
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