Thanx Barry ;

You make good points here .

FWIW, 'poor' is a state of mind not really related to being broke.....

I refuse to go there no matter how little ca$h I may have at any time .

The repairs thing is so right . sadly in my decades as a Journeyman Mechanic fully 90 % of the works I did were fixing DPO and DPM mistakes and errors so as long as I can hold my tools I'll do as much of the repair works as I can .

Buying a 10 + year old restoration is always going o get your best bang for the buck .


I've bought insurance salvage wrecks to scavenge the parts out of, talk about pennies on the dollar ! wow, sweet .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better