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Originally Posted by MOstang
Well put Bill! And I agree if you try to return one on your own to in-service condition it is going to cost you more and I'm afraid I know this first hand  (note: I did know what I was getting into, though, so that was not a surprise). But it is alot of fun. And of course a nut & bolt restoration is an even greater example of how it can add up quickly. |
I think you both make good points. I'm kinda glad, in a way, to see this because I think that the values on some of these cars were waaaay overinflated to begin with. There are very, very few "restored" cars out there, and lots of in-betweens being touted as restored. I don't look down at someone who buys a restored car (there's probably always going to be room for improvement somewhere, anyway), but I prefer to work on my own cars. There's room here for all of us, whether full-blown resto or just "restification", but with the way some of the values of the cars were going after being passed around between people numerous times, I'm glad to see that it looks like it might be finally coming to an end. Maybe these people will think twice about buying a car with plans to turn around and sell it a month or two later.
Maybe I'll get one done one of these days, too.
