Finally Tired of Antics on Graveyard Cars

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junkyardhero said:
i love how you don't even know or read what you've wrote. solid work all around and i'd expect nothing less. carry on.
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That's the Dan way.
As far as Mark Worman.
He produced the show himself along with the editor Aaron. They sell the show to whomever buys it. So if They are buying crap they want crap. Just like the fake arse fights and grudges in the early Street Race shows.
My 2 complaints about GYC.
1) When tgey 1st stated he had the blonde chick who was desk girl and producer go on Moparts and ask stuff he never new. And then spout it as he knew.
I personally had her email me and ask stuff.
2) Mark still has people's cars for a very long time undone. Mark took the cars, did work and pushed aside for many many years.
But started and finished famous people's cars and SEMA cars for his shop.
Body shop jail.
This is 100 percent wrong.
He has stated he is back slowly working on them again. Some cars are from the very start of GYC.
He is chaising new $
 
Kern Dog said:
You’re never going to see anyone pay $90,000 for a stock 318 Valiant or Dart. Dan Short from Fantomworks has stated that people are idiots if they think that their cars can be restored for $50,000. If you do everything yourself, it is possible but paying for body and paint on an A body isn’t going to be much less than a comparable Challenger or Road Runner but the final sale price of those E and B bodies will be much higher.
Look, I love all the Mopars but you need to face reality. A 318 Duster won’t pull the same money as a 383 Satellite. There are a few desirable 340 A bodies that are excellent cars but they will never bid for 3 million at auction like a Charger Daytona or HemiCuda. The lesser Chargers benefit from the Daytona fame as do the 383 Barracudas.
Worman has said that he couldn’t do the restorations for the prices that he does if NOT for the income he gets from the TV show.
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Well said. Don't forget the discounts on parts for his infomercial on his suppliers.
It got old fast, put that car on the Bendpack, ect. No one talks like that.
My wife said he mentions everything by brand. She was waiting for him to say man, I should not have eat the chili. I have to poop bad, good thing we only use XYZ toilet paper it's the best. Then pan the cameras to him walking out a door proclaims "clean as a whistle"
 
Dan the man said:
Shops around where I live used to charge a certain amount for doing quarter panels, etc if they were to charge by the hour then the average person couldn't afford to get the work done.
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They do book rate. Some guys do work (body and mechanic work) in less than book. Some loose their ***.
I knew guys who did 80_90 hours a week easy. And no Dan it did not take 90 hours.
Do you know how shops operate at all or are you that clueless?
 
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gzig5 said:
That really doesn't make sense. How the job is charged, doesn't change how long it takes. Are you suggesting that they are giving the labor away by charging by the job? The employees are paid by the hour and unless they take shortcuts, aren't going to be more efficient and get more quarter panels done in a week if they charge the customer by the panel instead of by the hour. I guarantee they are making sure that they cover all the potential hourly wage and consumables costs plus some, by baking it into a generic job charge. So it actually costs the customer more in the end if they are in fact doing it that way.
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Clueless Dan strikes again.
 
It was a good show at 1st.
I am sure it was not easy l. Can you imagine how Fast340six show woukd have been? Thank God there were no real cameras around when I was younger.
I would have had to swear it was filmed in Mexico.
Maybe a recreation would be fun.
Or a thread, On this episode of Fast340six, Kevin brakes his car being a white trash street racer and fixes it with junkyard parts.
 
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4fortyDemon said:
I just had a restoration guy come and give me a bid on repainting my 71 Demon. 40k. I appreciated all he looked over, but at the end of the day, it'll be a nice driver. Not a show car.
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That's a decent price for a restoration shop. Then after paint, time for extensive wet sanding and polishing. Sometimes 2 weeks or more. Do the math...at just 80 hrs times the shop rate, you can see how just the wet sand/polish job runs into the $$$. (Don't ask me how I know!! Got it from friend, haha.)

I'd love to have my 69 Charger body/paint done by a resto shop. But it would easily hit 6 digits hence why it won't happen!!
 
340six said:
They do book rate. Some guys do work (body and mechanic work) in less than book. Some loose their ***.
I knew guys who did 80_90 hours a week easy. And no Dan it did not take 90 hours.
Do you know how shops operate at all or are you that clueless?
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I know how they operate. They are supposed to go by the flat rate manual but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't
 
340six said:
They do book rate. Some guys do work (body and mechanic work) in less than book. Some loose their ***.
I knew guys who did 80_90 hours a week easy. And no Dan it did not take 90 hours.
Do you know how shops operate at all or are you that clueless?
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I haven't seen a shop of any kind have a flat rate manual for the customer to see back when my dad had his shop open you were required to have a manual present at all times
 
Dan the man said:
I know how they operate. They are supposed to go by the flat rate manual but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't
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Ask if you can buy a clue. Maybe Alex or Vanna White has one.
You said shop not a backwoods DanDaMan place
 
Dan the man said:
I haven't seen a shop of any kind have a flat rate manual for the customer to see back when my dad had his shop open you were required to have a manual present at all times
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New fangled thing I heard tell about, something called computer. A Book? Is this 1975 Dan?
 
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mygasser said:
but average people don't have 100k restos done though do they? :poke:
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Dan used to live in a place where they do work at 1975 rates. It is where they do work for $3.25 an hour to bring in work. Keeps the shop in work ya know. Thet do it since no one in Hicksville has money to pay.
They make the loss of income up with volume of work. It is a sound business plan
 
340six said:
Dan used to live in a place where they do work at 1975 rates. It is where they do work for $3.25 an hour to bring in work. Keeps the shop in work ya know. Thet do it since no one in Hicksville has money to pay.
They make the loss of income up with volume of work. It is a sound business plan
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that's why dan 'still' hasn't bought a car. he's trying to buy at '75 prices :rofl:
 
340six said:
Dan used to live in a place where they do work at 1975 rates. It is where they do work for $3.25 an hour to bring in work. Keeps the shop in work ya know. Thet do it since no one in Hicksville has money to pay.
They make the loss of income up with volume of work. It is a sound business plan
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Volume does help with the bottom line but that's probably something that you don't understand.
 
mygasser said:
but average people don't have 100k restos done though do they? :poke:
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Dan the man said:
Volume does help with the bottom line but that's probably something that you don't understand.
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So a larger volume of loss brings in more profit?
Well glad you chimed in I was running my small business wrong this whole time.
 
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