| uncljohn |
10-19-2011 07:48 AM |
After being active in the collector car community for many years and owning mostly orphans that are now long out of production, that happens.
As time passes, parts that never made it into reproduction and even reproduction parts are or have already dried up and data and information is gone.
I recently helped judge a national show and the team of 5 I was on, 4 of them had no clue what they were looking at or why.
They were either pretty or not. Any representation of what they might of looked like when new was mostly fantacy as were what equipment they came with orginially.
The owners, a full third of them had them registered in the wrong class.
As to my Saturn, it is harder to get parts for it now, nothing is in reproduction and many aftermarket parts were problem prone in the first place. And this year my repaint clear coat went to hell. A problem I guess I had by not applying enough of it. I sure paid good money for the material.
Live and learn and deal with what is dealt you.
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