How has the ressesion affected our hobby

Ive been lucky that ive managed to stay employed at the same job through out this fiasco and have no debt. Im very lucky that people still need and want PC's and that they need to be fixed occationally. That said i've been being more careful and working to build up some $$ reserves. I still get to drive my awesome OT car daily and im getting into the garage with my 58 in the next few weeks. We did manage to scrape together enough between my mom, dad and myself to buy a new FS curtis air compressor to replace the very worn out one we had. But beyond that its all about pinching pennies to get the car done and not go broke.

 

Not sure I'd call it lowballin'. I've made offers on stuff cause it's all I have to spend, and people get bent thinking your trying to steal it. In this economy I think buyers and sellers are in the same boat. Not necessarily a buyers market, just that buyers dont have money to offer.

 

A couple of years before the recesion , prices on parts and cars got crazy, this was due to people speculating, now they are back to what the hobby guys have always been willing to pay for them, example ; model A pickup beds 400-600 dlls, model a coupe body ; 2000 to 3500 depending on condition, model A roadster body 3000 to 4500, these prices have been the same for quite a long time, it just takes a little more time to sell the stuff.

 

Some pesemists rant that we are like the Roman Empire in decay, that China, India and Brazil will replace us as economic leaders, I disagree, why? because for over two hundred years we have had the freedom to think, to invent, and improvise, if we look back in history when we moved alot of our industry to Japan, the Japaneese were very eficient at copying things but not so much in the art of invention, this is bread in our culture, we just have to reteach ourselves to do it, through out history , we have overcome great obsticles, don't wait for our goverment, or wall street to solve our problems, take on the task your self , as I look back at my life, the one thing I have learned at school or through experience was to think how to aply knowlege in solving my problems, I just hope I hav'ent lost that skill.

 

Got some great news....
For the last couple of days, the phone's been ringing off the hook and I've been getting all kinds of emails from job recruiters(sp)..
I got a 9:30 appointment in Canton Mi. which is just a straight shot down Ford Rd. from me in Dearborn..
Plus I gotta call another person after the interview and set up another appointment with them..
Please wish me luck guys!!... I'm gonna need it!
Hope I land something BiG!!

 

Had to scrap my dreams of a Fat Lucky interior and buy repops instead from OPGI. And, to add insult to injury, getting it done one piece at a time starting with the back seat.

 

A fuckin men slingrods

 

I start a new job tomorrow morning! Guess I'll be swingin' handles on a Bridgeport and on a manual lathe.. I'll be machining details and assembling Cincinnati (Made in America) grinding machines for a living..
And it's close to home!!

 

Cool, you got a job!! The economy has never really affected me one way or the other. I was broke and still broke.

 

Good luck they are some of the best machines they made some good mills also Worked on em at Ford Transmission Plant

 

Thanks guys!
Got a question.... Ya ever get stuck between a rock and a hard place????
Another company called me and they want to get me started a.s.a.p.
It's a buck less an hour but there's plenty of overtime..
When it rains, it pours!!!

 

Overtime can be a temporary thing. Fortunes change, and it could go away. Regular time is regular time. Keep your time your time. Overtime can be a trap. When you know you can get it, you want more. Take more, or even all you can get you can get burned out, or worse, lose your family over it.

Trust me, it is not worth it. I lost the first woman I ever really loved, my wife and partner, over working too much. Don't do it. The money is not worth it.