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Old 02-18-2016, 06:05 PM   #7
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Default Re: restoring a old roadster back to stock. Seattle

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Originally Posted by 40 Deluxe View Post
My thought would be to forget about the 'show car' thing. You are in for a lot of work (but enjoyable work) and will feel justifiably proud of it when done. So now you would take it to some show and have a bunch of self-proclaimed 'expert' nitpickers criticizing little details?? Why lay out huge dollars for the correct cotter keys in the brake linkage or the original air in the tires?! Plus getting a sore butt from sitting in a lawn chair all day! Just make it a 20-20 car and enjoy driving it!
Sorry. I don't agree. "Good enough" seldom is, and he (or someone else) will end up doing it over. In Hitchhiker's case, it sounds like he has the time and interest to do a good job, and I think it is worth encouraging that attitude. It doesn't take that much more to do a job right.
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