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Laverda Dave:
Oh dear, you have made a fatal restoration error........ Never compose a spreadsheet to keep track of costs, you'll give up when you realise how much you are spending and the bike will end up on ebay as 90% complete for peanuts 😯.
Best advice is to do what we all do, keep the various receipts in a folder where the o/h won't find them and when you have finished the restoration count up the cost but don't tell anyone otherwise you'll never restore anything else!
Delete the spreadsheet and just crack on, keep the updates and photo's coming and good luck with progress 👍.

bucksfizz:

--- Quote from: Laverda120 on May 28, 2019, 05:02:26 PM ---Oh dear, you have made a fatal restoration error........ Never compose a spreadsheet to keep track of costs, you'll give up when you realise how much you are spending and the bike will end up on ebay as 90% complete for peanuts 😯.
Best advice is to do what we all do, keep the various receipts in a folder where the o/h won't find them and when you have finished the restoration count up the cost but don't tell anyone otherwise you'll never restore anything else!
Delete the spreadsheet and just crack on, keep the updates and photo's coming and good luck with progress 👍.

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I was thinking the same myself, but my three previous restorations had no limit spending, and I am now just curious.
As luck would have it, I don't need to justify any expenditure on my bikes, as my o/h and I have independent incomes - I spend what I like  :).
Will it end up on eBay even with the dreaded spreadsheet?
Probably not, as I'm a completer/finisher - I can't tolerate unfinished jobs.
Anyway, this is just the first phase: cleaning it up, and making sure everything works, which it doesn't, of course.
I have identified a couple of electrical gremlins, which I'll sort out when the parts arrive (one via my buddy in the US).
Cleaning and polishing are half-way through, and it's looking a lot better now:

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MCTID:
Hahahahaha.........spreadsheets...........four years on and I'm £7K into my CB750K4....seeing as I only paid £480 for the wreck of a rusty nail in the first place, I could have bought a very nice CB750 four years ago and enjoyed some nice rides and plenty of polishing since.

If you think that's crazy......I'm just over 11 years into my 1970 T120R Bonneville....again a £500 wreck rescued from the US..........I stopped filling in the Spreadsheet on that one when I retired in 2015 as it was on my PC at work (I forgot to copy it TBH....but probably a good job I stopped then).

So what has that cost so far........£7K.......£9K.......£10K ? Keep going....and that doesn't include anything for my labour, consumables, tools, trawling t'internet, going to look at stuff, VAT, shipping, Import Duty, Rip Offs etc etc.

The downside of the Story........don't do spreadsheets ! The good part.......if you have an (expensive) hobby like an old bike/ car/ boat you won't have time (or money or energy) for affairs with wayward Lasses (or blokes) ! LOL.

royhall:
But Alan, you have bought enough spare parts to build about 10 bikes so the expense probably isn't that bad.

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bucksfizz:
Total cost to date, which includes purchase price, shipping, and some parts yet to arrive, is £3,279.32.
I need to buy some side panels with jewel emblems, get them painted with the fuel tank.
That should come to less than £4K, and give me a ridable bike that will look reasonable.
Thereafter, I have to decide whether to do a full restoration.

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