What would your personal price point be to buy it back and bring it back to its glory days?
Good question, when the monkey wrench of "inflation" is thrown in for the cost of parts and services. These days, I have no idea how much replacement hoods go for (I just noticed today somebody buckled its hood after the last seller in Florida posted all his FB Marketplace photos in Jan 2021) or how much it costs to fix a bent hood. Pile on to that how much it costs for all that acreage to repaint in metalflake brown, to strip the reupholstered cloth interior (and then figure out what the original cab seats looked like), replicate the original vinyl stripes in actual vinyl, put the grille color back right, finding / installing the factory original rear bumper, ditch the Holly EFI swap, fix the popup sides where they attach to the roof, and a whole variety of other things. At least my former rig is not plagued with rust to the level of others I've seen.
What I do know, though, from tracking the assortment of recent big dollar sales, is that after the two highest anomaly sale amounts are tossed out, the going rate for partly restored good condition rigs in 'daily driver' condition is between $30 grand and $40 grand (the 3rd highest price for that description is for a pair of rigs that sold for $37 grand). In the case of the supposedly pristine unrestored "time capsule-preserved"Chalet #0429 that auctioned for $125 grand in March 2021, all the other bidders dropped out after the $47,500, leaving the remaining two to fist-fight it out to the top after the 3rd-last put in a $92 grand bid. So, I'd argue that pure top end value for a genuine time capsule example wouldn't be a dime over $50 grand, if even that much. So — to achieve sheer perfection back to factory showroom-new "former glory" where a collector would gladly pay, say $48 grand, knowing the rig is certified to have been restored to that level, you have to work backwards from that end value on every part cost and labor cost.
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