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I began the project with a 5k total budget...for mechanic and body work. Counting purchase, I'm sitting at $3600. Body and paint has a final budget of $1400. Where we live, in the rust belt, it's hard to come by a 30 year old truck that runs as nice as this for under $5K.
My budget didnt count maintenance items like tires,oil, filters, etc. If I take out bushings, water pump, power steering pump and hoses, and other maintenance items, I'm down to around $3K total.
I'm hitting the mark, and doing it as inexpensively as possible.
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 1987 560SL
85,000 miles
Meet on the level, leave on the square. Great words to live by
Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread. - Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821.
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