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Old 02-23-2019, 11:01 PM   #21
MiraclePieCo
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Re: help/advice on planning please 1957 truck build swap

Brilliant! Genius! Listen to these automotive sages:

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Originally Posted by mr48chev View Post
I've even had to buy a couple of parts back off a hulk I hauled to the junk yard and that really is a burn.
Yes, I've had to buy parts that I'd sold just weeks earlier. Infuriating!

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lots of people get enamored by teardown and thats the easiest part. I can open craigslist right now and find 3 projects completely disassembled with boxes of new parts and nothing done. some guys NEED that big pile of parts, because buying parts is progress, right? no. its just piles of parts.
Restorers whose wrenches only turn LEFT! How many cars have I seen or bought that are in boxes with half the parts missing? Disassembling a car takes no talent and it's virtually free; it's putting them back together again that's difficult, time consuming and expensive.
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