<VV> Restoration - DIY is $atisfying on $o-o-o-o many levels

[Charles Lee]

Yes, there are some things even you can't do, but the article that 
disappointed me back then said nothing about what the "restorer" did, just 
how to find someone else to pay to do it.

Someone here recently said (to my post about parking brakes) that it's 
easier to buy a new one, and I agree, except for two things :

1) buying things costs more (OK, in the long term maybe not, but often 
enough)
1a) the Flat Rate Manual - in my experience - tells me (a) the minimum I 
will be charged, because they will not charge less (especially if you've 
already agreed to pay more)

2) DIY is an opportunity to learn, albeit a challenge at times !
2a) DIY gives some insight into how to fix it when you don't have 
time/access/$$ to pay someone to do it.
2b) ESPECIALLY when you've paid someone mega$ to take a Wild *** guess at 
your expense, and
      1) did not fix the problem
      2) caused another problem
      3) fixed it wrong (i.e. wrong trans gasket blocking oil to the diff 
causing diff to literally explode, putting head gaskets in backwards 
blocking oil to the cams and water to the block, among others)

If I do it myself, I know what part to look for along the side of the road 
when something falls off after I repaired it myself ;>})ggg !

So, DIY is so much more satisfying on $o-o-o-o many levels !

Charlie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J R Read_HML" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>; "Tony Underwood" <tony.underwood at cox.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 12:18 PM
Subject: <VV> Was "most cars begin life as"- now Restoration


>I see little if any difference - money VS time.  One could say "I restored
> it myself" OR "I had it restored" OR "I did the things I felt competent at
> and had the rest done by others".  Any way you slice it, the restoration 
> was
> accomplished by the will to make it happen.
>
> Examples...  The heads go to a machine shop.  The exhaust system is likely
> purchased as a unit (at least the parts to put it together).  Not many of 
> us
> can do the machining of the heads or build a stock exhaust system from
> scratch.
>
> Later, JR
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tony Underwood" <tony.underwood at cox.net>
>>
>> Restoration?   Can anybody claim to have "restored" anything they
>> didn't actually do themselves?
>>
>>
>>
>> tony..
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