Restoring old classic cars it is still an expensive lesson, not cool. Original spare parts every year is only getting more expensive and they find the light harder and harder work for restoration in this plan is expensive not as dramatically.
Work to restore a Mercedes or Volga "almost the same", but if one product becomes more expensive to order the other or when not to pay off (if sold). This "expensive and rare" car to restore is always beneficial, it is the investment of money and a large demand for them, and prestigious.
But all this is just business, and it is currently profitable under certain conditions, and it is the main benefits. So if you can not save the original parts you can save money on people.
You have decided for Jim Byrnes six years ago by renting a huge hangar at the former us base in the Philippines. His company TDC is buying on the car dumps in Texas old Jaguar, Rolls-Royce and Mercedes, restores them and sells them at auctions.
This "factory" works about 200местных workers, many of them self-trained, some are qualified, as they say is not affected, it is up to par.
Jim Byrnes collector with forty years of experience, knows about cars almost all, the market is not standing still and constantly need to adapt. Yesterday was profitable to buy and sell in one place today, it is profitable to do in the other. Six years ago he sold his main company for a hundred million dollars and invested in this "factory".
March 20, 2007, Clark Air Base was renamed Clark Freeport Zone (the place where the mill), and since there are no taxes, no customs duties, just Paradise. You can import the machine, recover, and export for sale in other countries pay only tax on production.
Started the company VMT with 35 projects, but after two years, the volume of "production" has reached four, good square allow. The first four years, so to say, "practiced", he worked only for the domestic market, tried part of the work to convey "allied" but they did not survive the time and many had to leave. Now they have regular customers many of the world famous collectors.
They have their production in Poland, where they stamped the body panels. Also they do replica Dunlop brake calipers Jaguar (C-type, XKSS and D-type)
Once Jim Byrnes traveling across America in search of sweet, bought the landfill in Texas 37 Jaguars, different degrees of killing, in the company TDC have managed to collect five. Jaguars it certainly is a passion but not a reason to dwell on them, says Jim, if I see a rare and interesting car, I buy it, and no matter what he brand. Except the English cars in his collection includes both American Ford Mustang forty pieces (from 1969 to 1970год), thirty Mustang convertible (1964 1965год) which they recover one rental company in California.
So for the near future is very much the state will only expand. As elsewhere in the world the most popular is a master at sheet metal, among Filipinos a lot of these talented artists, among them are women. Women, the factory employs 45, from metal to the bulkhead of the motor, and here it is normal. Of course the local population or when not seen so many and such rare cars, this is car culture at mass production pushed from the screen, showing the canteen in the original movies about the beautiful life of fat cats.
Now the main market is with China, its millionaires are growing like mushrooms, but they don't want to buy the car and blow off dust particles from it, they want them to go, so the seller is 911, 993, 356, 190SL, E-type, Aston, Bentley and others, mostly antimony. Recently, the company VMT has been training in the Chinese restoration center, so soon and this niche will be occupied.
