Its funny, as long as this stuff has been around, someone always finds something to whine about.
I have probably built at least 20 cars and trucks through the years, some budget, some high end. The thing is, I build them because I want to build them. How they get built is inconsequential, usually it is only my 2 hands that touch my stuff, probably because I enjoy the build so much. If I had someone else building it with my vision, is it less cool, I don't think so.
I learned most of my car building skills out of necessity, in my youth I couldn't afford to pay someone. I still wanted to go fast, so I learned how to rebuild engines, transmissions, rears. I now can afford to pay someone to do these things for me. Yet my love of all things mechanical won't let me.
I find myself this very weekend installing a 383 Roadrunner engine in a 1954 Dodge M37 military truck. Why, when there is an AMX right next to it needing to be finished? Because, that is what I want to do right now!! When the mood hits me , I'll be all over that car, but until then I'm going to do what I want to do.
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