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Posted by Chriscase [63.199.241.107] on Wednesday, September 08, 2010 at 15:51:21 :
In Reply to: Re: WHEW! I feel better now. posted by Wade in IN [68.51.88.110] on Wednesday, September 08, 2010 at 13:57:44 :
I'm on a fixed income. But I've got time. So I fixed everything on my own truck. EVERY panel has a patch. The only repro was a headboard and bed strips.
Clint is charging umm $2,000 +/- for bed sides/pair? I figure my time at $10 per hour. While I did have to spend much time on my sides, including 6 patches each, new angle strips, and replacing top rails with pipe, I'm sure I didn't spend 200 hours on them. So by my own standards I'm way ahead.
But YHRMV (your hourly rate may vary), as well as your skills. AND expectations of perfection.
I've spent my whole life in production, making stuff. Time is money, whether welding, machining, cooking hamburgers, or carving carousel horses. My own definition of perfection includes flawlessness, in ZERO time, for ZERO money. Can't be done, so everything requires a compromise. What/where is up to the individual. It's called freedom.
There's those who hire a restoration done, cost $70k. There's those who buy all new parts, bolt them on themselves, along with extensive mods, cost them $35k. And there's those like me, doing basically an OE job, all work themselves, spending $10k. To each his own. But don't grouse about somebody who is repairing their own parts, and send them out for new re-pros, WHEN YOU HAVEN'T EVEN BOUGHT THOSE PARTS YOURSELF.
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