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Originally Posted by Tcoat
See that is just it with project cars, they do eat people alive!
It looks so simple when you see little snippets of projects on the internet but you do not see all the anguish that got to that15 minute video. All the TV shows about restorations/modifications do not help eliminate the perception it is easy either. They haul a piece of junk in at the start of the show and half an hour later a show car is unveiled. What we don't see (unless they want us to) is the intervening months of 20 highly trained and specialized people cursing the the project as every possible issue turns up and the pile of money thrown at it.
In the real world the percentage of dream projects that actually ever get completed is probably very, very small!
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I'm not even falling for the "well the show made it look easy" part. I like the shows, but I can imagine a lot more happens than what they show. The thing that gets me is what I've exhibited here. It was really, really easy to find the pieces. I could do that all day long and probably give you dozens of links and have absolutely everything I need. I feel like having all the parts is half the battle and just putting them together shouldn't be that difficult.
But the reality is they rarely just fit and work. And that's just sad, because as you said, very few builds are finished and the ones that are took extraordinary amounts of time, effort, and money to finish. It should be simpler, but it's definitely not.