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BD Mag. hit South Carolina today, article by toddZ and tasker!!! Can't wait to read'em!!!
After digging further, there's an article by Mitch about the "Creel Family Vacation"
After digging further, there's an article by Mitch about the "Creel Family Vacation"
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Some good stuff in this issue for sure. Loved the story by Bobby Franks about the '68 Roadster.
One thing in that story is bugging me though. The part about buying NOS mirrors from a guy named Sid. I'm trying not to come off like the world's most perfect and thoughtful guy (just ask my ex-wife) but paying $90 for parts you say are worth 20 times that? And naming the seller it in a magazine? It seems to me if he would have had a conversation with the guy and paid him something closer to what the parts were worth - he would have had a friend for life in the NOS parts business which could have proved really useful in the future.
Again, great truck and article. Congrats to everyone involved.
One thing in that story is bugging me though. The part about buying NOS mirrors from a guy named Sid. I'm trying not to come off like the world's most perfect and thoughtful guy (just ask my ex-wife) but paying $90 for parts you say are worth 20 times that? And naming the seller it in a magazine? It seems to me if he would have had a conversation with the guy and paid him something closer to what the parts were worth - he would have had a friend for life in the NOS parts business which could have proved really useful in the future.
Again, great truck and article. Congrats to everyone involved.
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Interesting and refreshing perspective, thanks for passing it along. I'd say that you'd be a pretty good friend to have. Howard in beautiful West Michigan
Not to be too negative, but I got the sense from this and the past couple of issues that the focus of stories in BD was drifting past the original grass roots Bronco material to an awful lot of high-end Bronco build-up stuff. Of course, those are good bars to set for the rest of us to build towards, but still, after a while you start feeling like small potatoes compared to the money some of these builds are burning. I suspect that more money is spent on some than many folks make in a year, if not two years! Or am I looking at it from a completely wrong angle?
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I NEED that fix... lol'
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patience, the snow is holding it up lol
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This article was brought to my attention, so I'd like to publicly comment back to 'knack' non-defensively to explain / defend my avenue on those mirrors.
"Some good stuff in this issue for sure. Loved the story by Bobby Franks about the '68 Roadster.
One thing in that story is bugging me though. The part about buying NOS mirrors from a guy named Sid. I'm trying not to come off like the world's most perfect and thoughtful guy
(just ask my ex-wife) but paying $90 for parts you say are worth 20 times that? And naming the seller it in a magazine?"
So I agree with you on the naming of the seller, that could of been handled in a different way, possibly by not mentioning his name at all and or by thanking him instead of just mentioning his name (thank you Sid) and sorry to knack for my lack of edicate.
As for the NOS mirrors and there purchase price/value, I would like to justify n clarify that.
Like mentioned in the write up by Tim, there's currently only twenty-six, 1968 Roadsters known to exist but at the time of purchasing those mirrors, years back, I believe there was only like three or four other 1968 Roadsters that existed. In my mind, with only 212 produced the likelihood of any other 1968 Roadsters surfacing was very slight. Yes those mirrors were rare, yes those mirrors were valuable but truly only rare and valuable to me, the likelihood of anybody else ever needing them was very low in my take.
When Sid the seller named his price on the mirrors along with a few other parts I purchased, I just rolled with it. The purchase setting wasn't a 'flea market style' for haggling or a 'name my own price' situation, it was a retail store and he laid the goods on the counter and told me the price. I guess I could of jeopardized the purchase and brought alarm to the one year only mirror or that 'possibly' 3 or 4 other people in the world to that date 'might' have interest in purchasing them one day possibly or I could just of kept my internal stoke and mouth shut on the find and rolled with what he was happy to sell them for, in which I did.
I feel just in my purchase and I honestly think these mirrors would either be sitting in that back storage room to this day or somebody else 'might' of possibly found them years later and purchased them for probably the same price.
Not bragging at all but I am the only one to date that has restored a 1968 Roadster. I feel I needed them and deserved them, then and now and I am so happy to of rescued them and gave them a good home, correct home.
I appreciate and understand the comment though.
I hear ya MarsChariot, lots of high end builds going on but I promise you I am a purist, true to the pedigree of Broncos and love the Broncos that keep it real in the dirt, unfortunately with this one I am now a trailer queen ; (
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"Some good stuff in this issue for sure. Loved the story by Bobby Franks about the '68 Roadster.
One thing in that story is bugging me though. The part about buying NOS mirrors from a guy named Sid. I'm trying not to come off like the world's most perfect and thoughtful guy
(just ask my ex-wife) but paying $90 for parts you say are worth 20 times that? And naming the seller it in a magazine?"
So I agree with you on the naming of the seller, that could of been handled in a different way, possibly by not mentioning his name at all and or by thanking him instead of just mentioning his name (thank you Sid) and sorry to knack for my lack of edicate.
As for the NOS mirrors and there purchase price/value, I would like to justify n clarify that.
Like mentioned in the write up by Tim, there's currently only twenty-six, 1968 Roadsters known to exist but at the time of purchasing those mirrors, years back, I believe there was only like three or four other 1968 Roadsters that existed. In my mind, with only 212 produced the likelihood of any other 1968 Roadsters surfacing was very slight. Yes those mirrors were rare, yes those mirrors were valuable but truly only rare and valuable to me, the likelihood of anybody else ever needing them was very low in my take.
When Sid the seller named his price on the mirrors along with a few other parts I purchased, I just rolled with it. The purchase setting wasn't a 'flea market style' for haggling or a 'name my own price' situation, it was a retail store and he laid the goods on the counter and told me the price. I guess I could of jeopardized the purchase and brought alarm to the one year only mirror or that 'possibly' 3 or 4 other people in the world to that date 'might' have interest in purchasing them one day possibly or I could just of kept my internal stoke and mouth shut on the find and rolled with what he was happy to sell them for, in which I did.
I feel just in my purchase and I honestly think these mirrors would either be sitting in that back storage room to this day or somebody else 'might' of possibly found them years later and purchased them for probably the same price.
Not bragging at all but I am the only one to date that has restored a 1968 Roadster. I feel I needed them and deserved them, then and now and I am so happy to of rescued them and gave them a good home, correct home.
I appreciate and understand the comment though.
I hear ya MarsChariot, lots of high end builds going on but I promise you I am a purist, true to the pedigree of Broncos and love the Broncos that keep it real in the dirt, unfortunately with this one I am now a trailer queen ; (
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Very good and healthy discussion! Excellent points and character in both viewpoints.
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Good words Howard2x4x4 and thank you knack, I appreciate the love and criticism in the Bronco community, I'm just trying to do my part : )
no worries and thank you very much for any comments on all parts of the restoration, it was a long haul and yes came out pretty nice in which I enjoy.
hope many others enjoy the read, enjoy the pics and maybe it gives them the fire to finish up a restoration they have in 'procrastination mode', I needed that kick during my mode.
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no worries and thank you very much for any comments on all parts of the restoration, it was a long haul and yes came out pretty nice in which I enjoy.
hope many others enjoy the read, enjoy the pics and maybe it gives them the fire to finish up a restoration they have in 'procrastination mode', I needed that kick during my mode.
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