Thread: Building a Rod on the cheap!

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I am in big agreement with the PATIENCE deal!!!! If you're a typical young guy, you don't have much of it. A year seems like forever. I've had my '71 pickup for 16 years and never got it finished and running yet. The Ranchero has been in the works for 3 years so far and the body is just roughed in and the frame started.

My best advice is take your time, save your money, and do it right the first time. If you don't have the time and money to do it right, when are you going to find the time and money to do it over????? Relax, enjoy the build...

As to the money, it takes money to build a nice car. Yeah, you can tack together a bunch of stuff you have laying around, and if that's all you want then go ahead and do it. But if you want a first rate Hot Rod, then it does take a considerable amount of money to do it right. The old "yeah, but it was cheap" excuse for having a less then desireable car is just that, an excuse.... Or, you can be like many others and drive a POS and call it a Rat Rod and try to convince the rest of us that that is how things used to be done./.......