When I read stuff from dudes that trash talk anything that isn't a platinum level restoration, I think what a pain in the *** they must be to be around.
For those that strive for perfection with no tolerance or understanding for anything less, feel free to keep your high standards while the overwhelming majority of others are having fun with lesser cars.
Do you not remember what it is like to be short on cash but still have great desire to drive a fun car?
Keep your virtue signalling ways to yourself. Most people will not be impressed that your car is trailered everywhere, never gets washed with actual water, has never made a pass down the strip or hasn't even been over 5000 rpms it's entire existence.
Let the rest of us enjoy what we like doing.
I liked the Roadkill shows. They inspired people to get old classics out of the field and driving again. Sure, it would be nice to see them painted with full interiors and mechanically functional but if they all had the stick up the butt mentality that it has to be perfect, otherwise forget it entirely, only the affluent 1% would have these cars.
I like that they're getting stuff out on the road.
I certainly don't care about the paint and interior, can't see what I drive and say I've got a problem with that.
I just don't like the substantial, basic safety short cuts and then turning around and calling it a "driver". Like I said, I like Freiburger, but, he doesn't live in the real world. It's entertainment. And that Duster is not a driver in the real world. Not with door handles that don't work, 9" drums up front and no working gauges. Yeah, you can drive it, and that's cool. But it's not a driver. If someone with a real 9-5 wanted to drive that car all the time it'd still need another $5k in parts and doing all the labor yourself to put it on the road reliably and frequently.
And if you did all that it still wouldn't increase the overall value of the car any.
i love the discourse in threads like these.
the gnashing of teeth, the rending of garments, the mewling cries: tHaT's t0o mUcH m0nEy!!!11!!
yeah, it's carrying a little bit of the fried burger roadkill tax, but not that much of one. don't think so? here's an exercise for ya: put it to paper and see what it really would be to build that out. account for everything there plus the purchase of a car. use real deal numbers, not what you've got in your personal stash that you bought back in 2010 on clearance or that manifold dirty johnny hooked you up with because he needed the extra $75 to make rent on his storage.
i think a whole mess of all y'all will be surprised what the number comes to.
at the end of the day though, it don't matter. it's only worth what somebody will pay for it. and yesterday, somebody loved that pile of crap just as much as you love your pile of crap and ponied up the cash for what they wanted.
I dunno man. Without the junkyard engine swap that Duster chassis doesn't pull more than a couple grand even as a roller with that roof rot.
And real deal numbers? How many of the parts on that car came out of Freiburgers stash from 2010? I've watched his show, I haven't seen a ton of this particular car but he has a long and established history of pulling parts out of his yard, the old magazines yard, off his other projects, having a buddy give him something or horse trading, etc. That's exactly how he did that.
I
really doubt he's got more than $7 or $8k into it, especially if you throw in the fact that he gets some of that stuff just because of who he is.
Sure, if you bought the car and paid someone to do the engine swap and other work to that car you'd probably be out more than $15k. But Freiburger didn't do that and he definitely doesn't have that into it.
