I dont know what it is lately but everywhere I turn, someones always wanting to part cars out. I dont know what happened the past 5 years but totally restorable cars are going to parts constantly. I know I know, a car is worht more in parts right now than it's worth as a whole......yadda yadda yadda.
Well then, restore that car and sell it to someone so they can have their dream car. For every car that gets parted out, one less person has the chance to own one. Yes, some of the parts are used to rebuild other cars and I do understand that. But, there are people on this board and others who seem to be doing nothing on here but selling parts from their parted out cars. Should these certain individuals be paying vendors fees??? I think some of them have far past a level where they are just trying to get rid of parts, it's become a business for these guys. Now if JoeBobsGN has a wrecked, totally rusted, bad titled, POS that isnt salvageable sitting in his barn then by all means, harvest the good parts off of it and get rid of the scrap metal. I have no problem with that.
What ever hapened to the reason we are all here?.......the dream we've all had about having this amazing car we built or purchased, the comradery of our fellow TB buddies, the good feeling of accomplishment when your cruising your car, etc!!!!! I get into this quite a bit with a certain person who is very close to me that I wont mention. First thing that pops into his head is, I'll buy that and part it out. I think he is changing that mind state and seeing it more to the way I see things. I think of a car thats incomplete or needing work like I thought about that Go-Kart frame sitting by a dumpster when I was a little kid. I took that go-kart frame and my buddies and I made that into a running cart from pieces of lawnmowers, bicycles, dirtbikes, parts from cars in the junkyard, etc!!! Granted it got pulled with a chain behind my friends 3 wheeler more than it probably moved on it's own power! But the point is, not every car thats not a show car is worthless. Some people cant afford a $15k-$20k car. some people can only afford a non running, rusty piece of crap. But those people will eventually fiddle with it enough that it may be a nice show car someday!!!
I just say.....build cars, stop thinking about the all might dollar! It may make some kids dream come true someday! My little brother is seeing that dream come true right now because we are rebuilding a car I parted out years ago for him! It was a wrecked salvaged car. The only thing we are actually using is the shell from that T. The frame and everything else has been built from donor cars that werent worth fixing. It's a 403 powered, BRF trans, 8.5 rear (3:73 gear), completely factory looking car. We used all the 307 wiring harness, carb, ECM, dash components, etc! It looks like it just rolled out of the factory with a 307 but it's actually a 403!
I'm not rich, actually I dont even have a job right now! I know money is very important but before you rip that car apart, please think to yourself......could it be fixed???
The cars of the late60s/early 70's have gone threw the roof. imagine paying $7500. + for a nice steering wheel?? Writing is on the wall. Stock parts are the ones that will bring in the $$$$. Yes some will "need" to have stock original parts. Not repo or Chinese copys 
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to that guy, Oh yeah the $ :biggrin:
