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From: SE Wisc. (the Rust Belt)
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Hi Bob. Nice looking panel for sure. The selling price was pretty steep though. You’ve had some recent experience trying to sell a panel and found it wasn’t so easy. What do you think would be a good price for your red panel?
As someone married 54 years I couldn’t conceive spending $19,000 without having my wife on board. Having said that, she’s always been a good sport. If I can show where the money is coming from, she’s going to be okay on spending it.
As someone married 54 years I couldn’t conceive spending $19,000 without having my wife on board. Having said that, she’s always been a good sport. If I can show where the money is coming from, she’s going to be okay on spending it.
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Jim the panel I was trying to to sell was way worse than this one. It would taken a lot more than $20K if a person didn't do all of the work themselves. This one is proof that vintage cars and trucks are selling but they have to be restored to almost factory condition. The panel I have, the one that is complete and with a little work I would think I could get maybe $12K~. I sold over to $3K of parts from the other panel and still have parts like the rest doors and gas tank. Sometimes it's better to sell in parts.
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Jim the panel I was trying to to sell was way worse than this one. It would taken a lot more than $20K if a person didn't do all of the work themselves. This one is proof that vintage cars and trucks are selling but they have to be restored to almost factory condition. The panel I have, the one that is complete and with a little work I would think I could get maybe $12K~. I sold over to $3K of parts from the other panel and still have parts like the rest doors and gas tank. Sometimes it's better to sell in parts.
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Another related subject to all this is my wife's ability to smell any money I make on selling parts. Never seems when I sell something for $200 she'll find a bill for $250 and is short the exact amount I just got. It's amazing. I've learned to keep my sales private and not tell her but somehow she always must smell the money. I recently sold some truck parts for a pretty amount, I was able to keep most of it by buying parts and supplies but at the end I had $300 left and amazingly she came up with a $300 expense she needed money for. I didn't tell her the amount but somehow she knew. I just sold $400 in parts and I'm waiting for her to ask if I happen to have $400 to pay a bill.
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That is a beautiful panel truck.
It would take way over $19,000 in repairs to get one into show quality condition. That does not even count the cost of the vehicle.
Usually, it is easier and cheaper to find a vehicle that has already been restored.
The problem is that without detailed pictures it is hard to tell the quality of the work.
For all of us on this forum that have put countless hours into our projects, we will probably never get our labor value out of these projects.
It would take way over $19,000 in repairs to get one into show quality condition. That does not even count the cost of the vehicle.
Usually, it is easier and cheaper to find a vehicle that has already been restored.
The problem is that without detailed pictures it is hard to tell the quality of the work.
For all of us on this forum that have put countless hours into our projects, we will probably never get our labor value out of these projects.
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Speaking of approval... i have a friend that bought an off-road motorcycle to race enduros, did it without going through the approval process. Months later, he and the wife were at a friends wedding and one of his buddies asked the wife how he liked his new bike.... let's just say it didn't end well! Many years later, they laugh about it, but it was a tense situation for a while!
I of course would never do such a thing without going through the approval process! 
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Quite a few years ago I was driving the F-2 down a road near our house and a guy flagged me down. He asked if I'd be interested in another truck, it was at his house a few miles away. Of course I had to check it out. Turned out to be a '48-50 F-6. The guy was a truck driver and he hauled it on a return trip from Colorado. The truck was rust free but had a very deep crease down the middle of roof. At one time it had a big boom and must have been used out west for pulling posts or pipes out of the ground and something must have left loose and the boom crashed into the cab. The guy wanted $500 for it, his girlfriend told me I could have it free, she just wanted it out of the yard. I got it for $300. I went home and told the wife I bought a truck for $300. She wasn't happy, to state it mildly. The seller delivered the truck to my shop and withing a month I parted it out for over $1000 plus parts I kept, including the engine I rebuilt last year for the F-2. The wife was upset until she saw what I made off of it. After that she hasn't said much when I drag a rusting piece of junk home. She knows I've never lost money on any of my treasures.
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Speaking of approval... i have a friend that bought an off-road motorcycle to race enduros, did it without going through the approval process. Months later, he and the wife were at a friends wedding and one of his buddies asked the wife how he liked his new bike.... let's just say it didn't end well! Many years later, they laugh about it, but it was a tense situation for a while! I of course would never do such a thing without going through the approval process!
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The look of surprise in my lady's eyes when she opened the toy barn and saw the mini excavator. She was not happy. I said I told you I sold the dozer and backhoe, you never asked what I replaced them with. Now she just asks if what I bring home runs or not?
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I met a buddy for breakfast one morning. We got to talking about a car for sale and went and looked at it. After some haggling I drove off in a 1968 Toronado for $800. I had a buddy's shop where I could stash it at. I got home about 11:30 and the wife asked why my breakfast took so long. I told her I bought a car. The first thing out of her mouth was "It's not coming here is it?.
I told her no, I had it over at the shop and she didn't say another word...woohoo.
So, basically I can buy whatever the heck I want, as long as its not coming to the house...LOL.
When I bought my 62 Studebaker it was similar. I told her I bough it but I stashed it at the shop. She just asked me "why I needed another truck" I told her, "its not about need"
After a few months, I took my 49 over to the shop and drove the Stude home. She didn't say much. So, I guess as long as I maintain the amount of vehicles at the house I'm OK.
I told her no, I had it over at the shop and she didn't say another word...woohoo.
So, basically I can buy whatever the heck I want, as long as its not coming to the house...LOL.
When I bought my 62 Studebaker it was similar. I told her I bough it but I stashed it at the shop. She just asked me "why I needed another truck" I told her, "its not about need"
After a few months, I took my 49 over to the shop and drove the Stude home. She didn't say much. So, I guess as long as I maintain the amount of vehicles at the house I'm OK.