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Hopefully that might just find you another person interested in squares and can help you find you one. I'd like to see you get one. As its been pointed out, it might not be your bag of tricks, but get one cheap one enough. Keep it basic, like a 350, Th350 trans, carbed so you can learn on it. By then, you'd know if working on vehicles if for you, and maybe build some confidence to work on the more complex newer cars.
 

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Probably $30000 in labor.

Which is why you do as much of it yourself as possible. We saved thousands of dollars doing 95% of the work ourselves on my truck. We saved roughly $6k just in the body work and paint alone by me doing all the body work and prep myself prior to dropping it off to get sprayed with color. When you have to pay for people to do the work you'll be forking over some coin pretty quick... :)
 

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Which is why you do as much of it yourself as possible. We saved thousands of dollars doing 95% of the work ourselves on my truck. We saved roughly $6k just in the body work and paint alone by me doing all the body work and prep myself prior to dropping it off to get sprayed with color. When you have to pay for people to do the work you'll be forking over some coin pretty quick... :)
I noticed alot of people spend gobs of money building a truck (mostly labor) and put it up for sale thinking they are going to get most of thier money back on it, evidenced by the rediculus asking price on some of these CL ads.:birgits_tiredcoffee
 

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no doubt!! Apparently they didn't get the memo that building a truck is NOT an investment!! :lol: You will most likely never get your money back out of it that you've put into it especially if you've forked over money for other people to do all the work for you :)
 

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