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Originally Posted by Lynn Eades
I've yet to see or hear about you giving or selling something cheap for the "general benefit of the hobby" so to speak.
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Kevin has been more than generous helping me out with hard to find items and, yes, even giving them away or selling them for well below their value.
While off topic, this may speak to another observation in this hobby. There are exchanges between like minded people (giveaways, trades, selling for "what I paid for it years ago") and also sales at outrageous prices to the market at large. I'm guilty of it, the logic being that a rare item I sell at the best possible price rolls revenue right back into an ongoing project. On the other hand a giveaway to a friend collector to help them out not only benefits the hobby but more often than not is returned in kind. I am way more inclined to give something away I know will find its way onto a viable restoration than to a stranger.
Having said that, if one was considering buying a derelict vehicle today with the intent of restoring it, and looked at the prices charged for parts, that might well dissuade the person from thinking about it in the first place. Or looking at it from the other side, if I didn't have the means to source parts at reasonable prices I couldn't afford being in this hobby.