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Originally Posted by alexiskai
Edit: I guess a shorter way to say this would be that I genuinely appreciate the rundown of all the things that can go wrong doing it this way – but I'd rather take the approach of "so try to mitigate each of those risks" versus "so don't even try it."
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Originally Posted by alexiskai
It was hack jobs by backyard mechanics that kept most of these cars on the road long enough for "hobbyists" with thousands of dollars to spend to come sneer at their work.
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But even your perspective on this is skewed IMO. Many hacks by backyard mechanics back in the day were done as a last-ditch effort as a way to get a little more service life out of necessity, -and not as preservation. Plus, those 'hackers' were doing the best they knew how to do. I would hope that we all know better now.
While your car is definitely yours to do as you wish, I would think most hobbyists today would rather look towards preservation of their vehicle, but maybe that mindset is changing also.