" WHAT "... accompanied with a few blinks and open mouth when told how much to restore their early Xs. I picked up the chrome today... 8 weeks and $2000.oo.... and we don't mark it up... the chrome shop is between my front door and the shop front door. Note no rims.... that's another $300.oo.... client went new.... we give the client a choice on the headers.... replacements are single wall and will turn blue... or we bake the stock headers (get the carbon-oil out) and have them chromed. We use Mike's Xs mufflers. Paint ! ! .. a quart of red is ... $600.oo add the harder, white paint.... clear coat... primers... time to prep and paint.... to obtain the candy red and white. We do stock paint work... not just Xs units.. but other Japanese bikes, vintage American and Euro bikes.... we don't do skulls and boobs. Powder coating the frame and other frame related bits.... wheel-spokes and new tires... no markup except time to drop and pick up..... usually 1.5 hours. Our current project is a Xs2.. the red and white model... the most handsome of the Xs series... So... $ ? ... between $6-8500.oo... from drop off and done. We don't do many... some folks can afford " turn key " restorations "... we brought a P-11 into the shop.. once ! and learned a hard lesson..... No Brits... we'll paint them... we're just not set up for positive earth and Whitworth. When it's all done.. and we go over the books... no one is getting rich on these projects... mostly it keeps two geezers busy and out of the house... and we have a good feeling handing over the keys to the client.