Hello everyone,

I've browsed some of the restoration jobs on here and seen some great things. I still have my 1990 Camaro I had from High School stored in a garage. It was having problems with the fuel pump and would sometimes shut off when driving if you hit a bump. (Traced this to a wire that would hit metal and short in the engine bay). It has V8 and only 63k miles. She has been sitting for over 12 years, never touched... Body doesn't look like it has any rust.

Basically how much do you think it would cost to get it restored? How would one go about finding someone to restore it (I have no mechanical skills what so ever)?

Basically it is time to get a toy. Instead of getting a motorcycle; I think I'd rather get my baby running again. I'm in the North West Suburbs of Chicago (Fox Lake).

 

Haha, you are not living in the North West Suburbs. Arlington Heights, Schaumburg area where I used to live is the North West Suburbs. If the car has no rust, has a good interior and you don't want a car with a beefed up small block or an LS engine than a paint job would be all you would need. Since you are away from the Chicago suburbs and their increased cost of living you could probably get away with $2-3K for a good paint job. You could do $1-2K but the paint will be bottom of the line, it would have to be a respray of the same color, they might not color sand and they might not even wet sand before the color. So if the car has a good interior, solid drivetrain and now good paint you could enjoy driving it and going to car shows and entering it.

If however you wanted to upgrade everything you will far, far, far better off selling yours and buying one that is already done. Depending on how fast, how pretty and how well it handles one would cost $5K all the way up to $12K. Anything North of $12K would need to be impressive, as in nothing original everything upgraded.