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Old 01-23-2011, 03:08 PM   #34
Erik V
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Vancouver, WA
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Re: Some guys have skills and some have bills

The circle of car enthusiasts I typically run in has both types of people. We call them "gear heads" vs "checkbook mechanics".

These old trucks are fundamentally simple, you just have to figure out how to deal with obstacles. My newer cars are much more complicated, and I figured them out fairly easily with the help of online communities like this one.

Bottom line, if you can afford to pay someone to fix stuff that you dont want to fix yourself, then go that route-I will never be a body/paint man. So when the time comes for that, I'll pay someone else to do it. I just have no desire to deal with it on my own. Mechanically I'll deal with all the greasy metalic heavy jobs myself though.

Erik
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