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Old 02-13-2020, 12:49 PM   #1972
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Originally Posted by Lantanafrs2 View Post
Performance enthusiasts many times practice the art of reverse investment. Rather than pay 50k for a fast car, we buy a 30k car, put 25k into it making it worth 10k and never reach the performance of the 50k car
And in many, many, many cases as soon as they are done all the work they sell (at a loss as you pointed out) and move onto the next project. These are the project enthusiasts that really enjoy the work more than the finished product. There is nothing wrong with that and I have done the same thing several times with classic restorations.
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