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High priced Drake Running Boards March, 2007 I purchased a pair of 34 running boards from drake for $750.00. Looking at the June 2010 catalog, they are $1250.00. Sixty percent increase in 3 years. Wow, talk about inflation. And they are made overseas where they probably pay their workers $5.00 hour. Boards did not fit that great anyway.
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Re: High priced Drake Running Boards Huntley Acuff in Roseville,GA 706-866-4875 is still doing them for $750 + shipping on your cores.They look great.
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Re: High priced Drake Running Boards If they are being made in China, It may be more like $5.00/day or less.
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Re: High priced Drake Running Boards You should be able to make a very nice set in Michigan or Ohio made by a man with a name like Dave or John or Andy,or any other name, who has a fine young son and a new baby girl, a new Ford Truck and a house with a white picket fence with a crisp new flag proudly flying from the porch. For the sum of $1250.00. And you should be able to make a tidy but not greedy margin on that piece.
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Re: High priced Drake Running Boards Wow, thats a gouge!!!
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Re: High priced Drake Running Boards Thought about going that route for my 34 but put the time and effort into my originals and covered them myself. Very happy I did and .....I do fly a flag at my house!
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I am a retired tool & die maker. In China where most of my former trade has gone, the average tool maker makes .20¢ an hour. No BS. |
Re: High priced Drake Running Boards Drake said to buy them now when they were 750. the price would go up.
they are nice! ---- be patient and ready. he throws great sales, they will probably go on sale sometime. |
Re: High priced Drake Running Boards I just don't understand. When BD first started making the R/Bs in China, he raised the prices. He was making them cheaper, but charging more for them. He's still raising prices.
If someone else starts making quality R/Bs in quantity, watch his prices drop like a rock ! MIKE :confused: |
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Re: High priced Drake Running Boards I heard some place that V8 shop might have decided that the running board business was again profitable so they might start doing 32 and 33/34 boards again? On Drakes prices, it takes a lot of money to feed his project 40 coupe!
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Re: High priced Drake Running Boards I just don't get it. The economy is in the tank, people are losing their jobs and homes. Yet you go to the supermarket, auto parts store, or look at the cars for sale and everything is higher each day. Something has got to give. At some point people will say enough is enough.
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Re: High priced Drake Running Boards " At some point people will say enough is enough "
Yeah, read the book "Atlas Shrugged". That point is a John Galt moment. |
Re: High priced Drake Running Boards Ayn Rand had a grasp of things.
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Re: High priced Drake Running Boards Huntley Acuff is GREAT. He did my boards. Great job.
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On a 39 deluxe / 40 (all) the Drake boards are not quite correct and as they are delivered and will not pass the scrutiny of a worthy judge on the concourse. If you have a decent set of cores, do yourself a big favor and go the Acuff route. |
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Re: High priced Drake Running Boards Your Dollar has devalued .28 cents on the dollar against the basket in nine months, your market didn't go up, it devalued and only appears higher in relation, this is economics. Your 401 K only appears to have recovered, it is actually still worth less, nice trick. Not.
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Re: High priced Drake Running Boards Amen, brother!
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