Body Let me hear the bad news

[bennylava]

I can already hear it... "Get a new body".

This thread is to help me answer the question "How much will it cost if I don't get a new body"?

This CJ7 belongs to my wife, and it holds sentimental value to her. Her dad used to take her off-roading in it back in the late 1980s when she was a kid. So getting a new body would sort of defeat the purpose. If it were mine, I would probably just buy a whole different jeep and put this thing on craigslist.

But instead, it's up to me to fix it up. So I'm hoping you guys would be able to tell me how much money I'm looking at, to get a good paint job on this thing, with all bodywork finished out. $10,000 right? LOL

 

[bennylava]

Here's the pics:

 

[bennylava]

There's no major dents anywhere, but the whole thing is like that. Except for the interior, which does look like it's from the late 70s. So please consider the interior to only need standard paint refurbishment. With no surface rust.

 

[CJ]

I have seen much worse. It doesn't look rotted.
Almost every replacement body part is available if needed.
What work will you be doing? Sanding? Stripping? Welding? Body filler? Primer? Paint?

 

[bennylava]

I have seen much worse. It doesn't look rotted.
Almost every replacement body part is available if needed.
What work will you be doing? Sanding? Stripping? Welding? Body filler? Primer? Paint?

Oh yes I should have been more specific. I don't want to lift a finger on the bodywork. I want the autobody pros to do everything. So I'll be doing nothing.

 

[TSB8C]

Oh yes I should have been more specific. I don't want to lift a finger on the bodywork. I want the autobody pros to do everything. So I'll be doing nothing.

You'll spend more than a new body would cost. And how's the frame under all that?

 

[jzak]

Not a huge number of pics to make a decision, but as long as you can't stick your feet through the floor pan or rocker panel, I would say the tub is worth saving. Bought a Barnfind CJ5 when I was living in Seattle. It was as rust bucket, but the body was solid, so no patching in new metal. I think I spent like $2000 getting Macco to do the body and paint work, but that was 2007 money.