The majority of us members do not have the skills nor the space to bring a wreck back to this point.
When you have the skills, you make the hard work look easy to the rest of us.
One thing that truly determines the success of a job is the confidence, skill and experience of the person doing the work.
When you've done the work before, you know the obstacles and how to get around them. You know the problems and you fix them.
There are moves that you make that are effective and the moves that you avoid that take too long and don't work out as well.
It annoys me when a person takes their car to a skilled repair guy, the job is done quickly and the customer thinks he was overcharged because it was fixed so quickly.
You are not just paying for the time spent on your car. You are paying for the years of experience and skill that allowed the man to do the repair and to do it quickly.
We all have
something that we are good at doing.
Me? I am adventurous. I jump into a project and use whatever skills I have to figure a way through it. I try to not let myself be deterred by the fact that I'm doing something that I never did before.
This is where that subject hits home...
In 2020, I pulled this car into my shop:
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It was wrecked and sat for 24-25 years. It had bent frame rails and aprons, a shredded upper core support and needed a lot of work. I had one plan of action but in truth, was flying by the seat of my pants.
The OP chimed in and gave me some pointers on what to do and how to do it. Because of him, I was able to move forward...
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I had the initiative, the OP gave me the push to see it through.
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For him, the truck repair was easy because he has the skills.
For me, fixing this wreck was easy because he took the time to offer some advice to help out a man he never met.
