Looking for advice. Want to build a Duster to run on a budget.

Your post is right there to see. There is no hiding your opinion on what I should have done. It shows just how out of touch you are with situations. Let me post it again here. Notice the CB antenna holes that you would have buffed over -

junkyardhero said:
sad. that paint could've been cut and buffed and that car would've looked great wearing battle wounds.

instead now it looks like a typical flip sitting on a buy here pay here conman lot, waiting for some unsuspecting fool to get taken for a ride by a charlatan that claims he's doing the hobby a service.

LAUGHABLE

why would i hide my opinion? why would you even think i would need to hide it?

a delusional hack who favors chicken wire and bondo over a correct repair telling somebody else that they're out of touch? that's rich, even by your standards.

you ruined a car that could've been great. further, you've made any future repairs even more difficult. just adios'd all the beautiful original paint in the name of your fundamentally flawed and hacky "preservation". so sad to lose another one to the clutches of a person with a deranged sense of self worth.