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Originally Posted by Wade Mahaffey
In the old days, many folks built there own cars. Or maybe a few buddies worked on a project together. But most were limited, to what they could do themselves.
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Still that way at least the people I know
We had Mike P at MPR do the cage and suspension. The initial reason was simple time, he could get us in-out in a month....It would have taken me 4-5 to do the cage and chassis because well Id never done a DP Chally , Mike had.
Paul at Turbo Action did our transmission .
We did the rest, paint, powedercoating, glass, interior, (part of the wiring) all the plumbing, all the assembely, on and on. Everything except cage and transmission.
Transmissions, Im never screwing with period
Chassis work ? Well after seeing Mikes work, his low costing and fast turnaround ? Ill be hard pressed to dig out the benders and tig again.
In a way I am dissapointed I cant call the cage mine, because I originally planned to do it, but the delvery of the car was so much delayed I had no choice, in the end itturned out by far for the best.
Next one I will do myself but I will buy the "kit" from Mike....no reason to reinvent perfection.
Anyone can pay someone to do it all by other people , FEW do it all themselves, they get "looked down on" by SOME who just throw money at vendors, which is stupid as hell, Id rather have a cosmetically shaky car done all myself than a "trailer queen" I just paid people to do. People say "Oh who did X" Sometimes, not all, you hear hesitation in their voice "Uhhh I did" ....."Oh" a snooty reply from someone who is incapable of doing it themselves.
Why did we do it all ourselves ? Because it was hard. And it was and always will be what we enjoy, BUILDING it.