LOL, I think everyone went to H.S. with that guy. Our guy like that's dad owned to Ford Dealership in town. The best part for me was, at 18 yrs old with a min wage after school job to buy parts I handed his ass to him!
LOL.... never saw the "BLAKwoaC" before.... haha, great name!
Seems like you and I debated this one a while back in a thread about homebuilt engines where someone declared any engine built at home is going to fall to pieces. LOL..
I think SSeater said it best when he said "getting too old for this." Every time I work on my car be it my Mustang or my daily, I find that over time it just gets more frustrating due to limitations on time and patience. I have less time to work on cars these days due to having a wife, 2 little kids, and a full time job. I love my kids and enjoy every minute of their company. That doesn't mean I don't still do my own work, and frankly if it is something simple I really have no problem doing it myself. However, the more complicated repairs where I'm required to be on my back with the car 12" from my face (trans rebuild, clutch replacement, exhaust work, etc...) will be left to a professional shop from this point forward. I've been there, done that, and have zero interest in doing it again.
I've reached a point in my life/career where I make enough money to be able to both save for retirement AND pay someone else to spend 4+ hours underneath my car to replace a clutch/trans/etc... 4-6 hours of labor is relatively inexpensive when I consider the time I spend with my kids to be priceless and I'm also saving my sanity and knuckles.
EDIT: also don't take the word "complicated" literally. Some would think changing over-head cams and replacing timing components is "complicated", however I'd much rather replace cams and timing components than install a mid pipe and cat-back while laying on my back with the car on jack stands.
Those Mueller metal buildings are reasonably affordable. Have you looked into those SSeater?
hmm, shows what I know then. $21k isn't a bad deal for that. Wish I had the land to put it on. What's a acre go for in your county?
Rule of thumb depending on locale is 10k/acre. If you get off in a fancy subdivision or waterfront expect to pay more. I bought the wooded 3.3 acre plot next to us last year and stole it @ 26K. We've got a fuzz over 5 acres altogether after that purchase. I live across the road from the San Bernard river, our neighbor hood has a private boat ramp. A coworker of mine bought an acre and a half on the river side last year and spent close to 100k for it.
I'll drive to the boat ramp, thank you.
Yeah, those houses on the river are nice, I go wake boarding in the summers there. I still think 10K an acre is silly. Anything with 50 miles of Houston is skyrocketing. Even Sealy is there now. There are some decent plots for sale, but they are all surrounded by tornado magnets with questionable inhabitants...
What a bunch of assholes this hobby is populated with!
So what would we think of the individual who had all of their parts bought for them? Are they car guys as long as they put them on themselves?
Or the ones who "picked" out their own parts and had someone else put them on. They may have picked a great combination of parts for their build, but because they didn't have the means or possibly the knowledge to install it themselves, they're cast out of hotrod Valhalla by the wrench heads?
Like I said earlier…there are all kinds of snobs out there. There’s the buy it out right…turnkey and ready to go, the build it with their credit card type and now seemingly the type that won’t accept anyone who hasn’t bled and scrapped, living on the edge of poverty to support their hobby over years as a real car guy?
What a bunch of assholes this hobby is populated with!
So what would we think of the individual who had all of their parts bought for them? Are they car guys as long as they put them on themselves?
Or the ones who "picked" out their own parts and had someone else put them on. They may have picked a great combination of parts for their build, but because they didn't have the means or possibly the knowledge to install it themselves, they're cast out of hotrod Valhalla by the wrench heads?
What a bunch of assholes this hobby is populated with!
Honestly, those of you who mod yourselves if you are jack asses to people who paid for a nice car or paid to have a car modified you're no different than a snobby terminator owner (IIRC that seems to be the most prevalent example you all have a distaste for).
Yeah but you can usually tell who the ones are who bought a nice car just to be seen in it. The blonde in the passenger seat usually has bolt-ons too.
If you want to call me a snob for seeing ^ this guy and saying, "Nice car, sorry about your cack." then go ahead. I'm still going to snicker at him.
Agreed Brian... I have the ability to enjoy any car whether stock or modded, and frankly I don't care who the owner is I'll give anyone a thumbs up if I like their car (again self modded, someone else modded, or turn key). It makes absolutely zero bit of difference for me if someone does the work themselves, pays someone else, or buys a turn key exotic. What does bother me is arrogant a** holes in this hobby that have a "my chit doesn't stink" attitude because they:
a. built their own car with their own hands and think everyone else is a poser who didn't do the same,
b. bought an exotic and act like a snob with the attitude that their car is better than everyone else's because they paid $200K, or
c. daddy bought them a nice car and they paid to have a shop install all of the parts not knowing anything about those parts and walking around trash talking others who can't afford/don't have the time to make the same/similar modifications.
etc...
At the end of the day, it has more to do with the attitude of the individual car owner than it does to how they acquired or modded their car. Honestly, those of you who mod yourselves if you are jack asses to people who paid for a nice car or paid to have a car modified you're no different than a snobby terminator owner (IIRC that seems to be the most prevalent example you all have a distaste for).
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