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12-30-2008 08:45 AM #10
I just build mine for me..if somebody else likes it that's fine, if nobody does, that's fine too.... For me, this came from so many years of doing customer cars. I did my sentence on the restoration cars, doing everything correct down to the hose clamps and chalk marks. Then got involved with the V-8 in a.... Vega, Pinto, Ranger, S-10, Nash, heck you name it!!!! If you want it in there bad enough it will fit!!!! Then I got stuck on the coupes and roadsters where the customer showed up with a list of store bought parts he wanted used on his car.....
Finally I sold the shop and moved into my little garage and the real fun began!!!! I like to go looking for a car that nobody else builds, take it all apart and let it sit in the garage and age appropriately while I consider what it should look like.... Once I start on a car, time or money doesn't really matter. If I don't have the money for the pieces I want, then I finish and sell something else and use the money on the next project.... I won't comprimise on parts or labor 'cuz it's too much, I'll just keep plugging along til it comes out the way I want it.... Guess I've just had my fill of having to hurry to meet somebody else's schedule, and cutting corners to save somebody else some money.... Truth be told, I wouldn't recomend this method too many people. You'll wrap up a ton of money and time in a project, sometimes 2 or 3 cars at once, and not really have a lot to show for it til someday when it's all done.... I guess patience is the big thing I had to learn, patience to take the time and make and spend the money so that I can build exactly what I want, even though it often means leaving a project set for a year or three so I can do enough other stuff to sell that I can afford to get back on it.....
I spent 40 years making customers happy, now it's my turn and I'm having a blast!!!!!!!Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, Live for Today!
Carroll Shelby
Learning must be difficult for those who already know it all!!!!





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