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[motorheadmike]

Originally Posted by pontiac65

If you want it done right do it your self, or as much of it as you can.

Exactly. Who is speaking in absolutes? I didn't suggest I was making my own spark plug wires or refining my own engine oil. Get a life with the semantics.

Could I have bought someone else’s project and been ahead of the game? Sure. But, at the same time I'd end up back tracking and fixing the many things I couldn't stand in order to personalize it; and that costs.

This is where the true enthusiast lies: https://lateral-g.net/forums/show...=garage+builds , the men and women who have busted their knuckles and made their mistakes, the ones who have really experienced their cars and the satisfaction of completing them with their own hands.

You know who you are when while sitting around on a Summer night bench racing and the conversation sounds like this: Remember that time we were dropping the new long block into the Camaro on Christmas Eve during a snow storm...? and not this: Man, remember that time that we were polishing our cars with diapers at the car show...?

If I sound a bit like a proletariat-elitist… good.