Where to find someone to restore a more modern car?

ddavidv wrote:

mtn wrote: Sell it and find a mint one.

Sentimentality about inanimate objects is, unfortunately, silly.

Tell that to a woman who is staring wistfully at a carbon carbuncle mounted in a gold setting.

Ranger50 wrote: While you have a good path pointed out to them, is it really worth the cash? The car is too new to really restore, but too old for anything else. Unless there is some sort of sentimental value, sell and buy a better vehicle, you will be cash ahead by many thousands of dollars.

This. I did much of a restoration on a '90 Miata and when all was said and done, you could practically have bought a new MX-5 for what it cost. At the beginning of the project, we explicitly told the car's owner that he would be far ahead money-wise if he just found a clean '90 and had us bring it up to date maintenance-wise. No, he said, it has to be this car. Fair enough.

I later did work for someone who did his own frame-off restoration of an '02 Silverado. Fortunately for him, parts were easy to find since most are still in the dealer network.