“But it was cheap!”
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But It Was Cheap!
Now that I was a muscle car owner (muscle car shell anyways) I had to take stock in what was needed and man, I needed a lot: every front panel, all the glass, wiring, engine, transmission, every single part of the interior including the dash and all of it’s contents, tail panel, brakes, floor pans, you name it!
I could rattle on about turning this bolt and that bolt, but one thing I learned first was that the fastest way to get my car back on the road was to network. I connected with anyone and everyone I could who was upgrading, perpetually projecting, hoarding or divorcing. Through the scouring of Craiglist, Ebay-local pickup and friend’s stock cast offs, I managed to source most of my car. I was shameless; if a guy came in swapping out brakes, I asked about the old stuff. If a shop was going out of business, I asked what they were getting rid of. If I found an ad on Craigslist, I asked “what else you got?”. Back when I worked at Steve’s Camaros a lady called asking if we bought old Camaro parts – we didn’t but I needed stuff (as you may recall, this is how I got the car in the first place.) so I stopped by her house to see what I could forage for. Turns out the woman was going through a divorce and she sold me a sub-frame for $50 bucks
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