Look at this guys, as I edit the season finale (episode 26) of Graveyard Carz, I cannot help but appreciate the craftsmanship and care that went into this restoration.
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It's easy for people to pick things apart and stand on their little mound and feel important, but they are not the ones spending two or three years of their life giving these cars new life. A laundry list of issues will happen with any restoration shop - these cars had a laundry list of issues when they left the lot! Difference is - you now have a beautiful car that's restored! It's not rusted and held together by duct tape! It's frickin beautiful! Personally, I'd take the fully-restored car with the laundry-list of things that will be fixed then going back to what I had before.
But people will never look at it like that. Instead, they will do everything they can to try and one up you. They will grab their camera, take a closeup of the gap of the decklid and say how atrocious it is - they will try and tell you that if you take on a collision job, that you're responsible for the entire car regardless of the condition of how it arrived - they will confidently tell you you are wrong when you tell them that "Yes, the only distinction in the VIN's between a Roadrunner and a Superbird was the 'U' code. Nothing else in the VIN classified it as a Superbird" (I bet many people here will still try and argue otherwise) - the point is, it's easy to **** on someones hard work or intelligence. It shows how decent of a human being you are to take a deep breath and appreciate the hard work that went into everything that you couldn't tear apart - and maybe accept that you learned something.
This will be my final post here as the negativity in general - even outside of this thread - is just unbearable. I wish this community good luck.