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I have seen many cars on this forum that I love, but would not want to own, because the choices the owner made aren't suitable for me. And I'm sure that they might feel the same about my choices. But, I feel that I benefit from being exposed to both the cars that I like and the ones I don't like. It helps me tweak my choices as to what I do to my car, and what works and what doesn't.
I am encouraged by seeing people tearing into a relatively expensive car and doing mods with little or no knowledge trying to improve or change what Toybarus' engineers designed. When I was doing that I was buying non running or poorly running British cars to learn on. That led to a whole procession of cars often 2 or 3 at a time that I learned my car craft on. But I was doing it on cars that I paid $50-$200 for. And the main cost was the labor that I put in. I made alot of mistakes but learned alot.
The biggest problem that I see is that many think that they know it all. I can assure that most do not. Smokey Yunick arguably one of the best and most creative racecar builders was always trying to learn more about his craft. That's what made him great. Once you think you know it all you stop learning.
Remember, you should learn more from the mistakes than the successes.
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