My rebuild

Old Aug 17, 2018 | 08:56 PM
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Originally Posted by mcbassin
I know this is an old thread but, it sure would be cool to see it finished......
Just a FYI most builds that start on cars like this never get finished by the guy the originally starts them if at all. He was looking at 500 hours of metal work for a non-pro and once that was done another 100 hours is finishing work. All that just to get to a shell that needs assembled. The owner quickly starts to see that even getting 15 hours a week to work on it means its years away from being done. They see a completed shell for $7,000 and they start to realize that's not a bad deal. Next thing is his project becomes a parts car. I don't know what happened here but the member went inactive in 2011 and has not log into the site sine 2014.

Also real life happens in the years it takes for one guy to build a car , marriage, baby, school, job change, promotion all can kill a project. It happened to me, I had a 1967 shorty pickup I was restoring and I got a chance to move closer to work, I could not pass up the deal but it meant getting rid of the truck, not enough parking. I lost money on that deal.
 
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