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Old 08-20-2010, 08:16 PM   #1
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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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Old 08-20-2010, 09:13 PM   #2
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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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Old 08-20-2010, 09:25 PM   #3
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If they are being made in China, It may be more like $5.00/day or less.

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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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Old 08-20-2010, 09:45 PM   #4
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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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Old 08-20-2010, 11:03 PM   #5
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Wow, thats a gouge!!!
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Old 08-20-2010, 11:17 PM   #6
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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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Old 08-21-2010, 08:57 AM   #7
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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.
$5 an hour?
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.
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Old 08-21-2010, 11:31 AM   #8
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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.
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Old 08-21-2010, 12:44 PM   #9
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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 !
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Old 08-21-2010, 01:47 PM   #10
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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 !
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Old 08-21-2010, 02:15 PM   #11
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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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Old 08-21-2010, 02:43 PM   #12
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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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Old 08-21-2010, 07:19 PM   #13
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" At some point people will say enough is enough "

Yeah, read the book "Atlas Shrugged". That point is a John Galt moment.
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Old 08-21-2010, 07:27 PM   #14
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Ayn Rand had a grasp of things.
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Old 08-21-2010, 08:17 PM   #15
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Huntley Acuff is GREAT. He did my boards. Great job.
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Huntley Acuff is GREAT. He did my boards. Great job.
Hundley has done a number of sets for me. Wonderful workmanship.
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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Old 08-21-2010, 08:43 PM   #17
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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.
Not to get into politics but....Too much money being printed is another factor of high prices
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Old 08-21-2010, 10:18 PM   #18
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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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Old 08-22-2010, 12:36 AM   #19
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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!
I bought a set of 32's earlier this year and at that time thaey had just done a run of about a hundred sets. It wasn't as much a profitability issue in the long delay in them making them but more a problem with finding a new vendor to do some of the work in a high quality as the earler versions were. Mine look great and if I remember correctly only cost $500.00 plus shipping and are made in the good ol USA.
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Amen, brother!
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