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Old 05-26-2022, 09:59 AM   #69
GASoline71
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Re: Restoration insanity

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This whole get your money back out of them or even making money thing never existed when I got into doing big jobs on vehicles... or even small jobs. So, money doesn't even come into it, other than the money needed to make it happen. That's where the pleasure comes in, not being about the money. If it was about the money I wouldn't be doing it
Yep... Trying to justify the cost of the build by how much you can sell it for would be nauseating. I just build them to enjoy them. If I have to sell a rig, so be it... I sell it. But then again, I've never tried (and never will try) to do a high dollar perfection build.

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