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In a message dated 11/8/13 15 49 17, jtaphorn@kingwoodcable.com writes:<BR>
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>>>Oh yeah, for sure!<BR>
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This just illustrates the point that if you want a car like this, you are way, WAY better off buying one that's already done. This guy has a buy-it-now price of $140K, and judging by the appearance of the car, he may well has spent that much on it. But there's no way he's going to get anywhere near that much for it if he sells it--he's going to take a financial beating.<BR>
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If somebody has infinitely deep pockets, and more importantly, plans on keeping the resulting car forever, he can perhaps justify going to somebody like Don Byars and having a car built like that, to his exact specifications, with every bell and whistle imaginable. Regardless of how much it costs him, he hasn't 'lost' anything until he tries to sell it.<BR>
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But for most people, if they want to have a car like that, they are way better off finding somebody who is in some sort of distress and feels the need to dispose of their blinged-out Pantera. It enables you to buy something like this for a fraction of the cost to build it. Okay, so maybe you would prefer a yellow car rather than red, but if it means paying double to build one from scratch, most people can learn to live with the red!<BR>
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