Finally Tired of Antics on Graveyard Cars

Kern Dog said
Oh no! He is a man that only restores cars to make money at it! What a terrible guy!
He isn’t wrong. If you send him a rusted and incomplete car that looks like this:

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The rust repair, bodywork and paint alone could total up to more than the car could ever get if you sold it.
Add on drive train, suspension brakes and steering, electrical, interior, glass and every nut and bolt.
Don’t blame him for being a realist. The A bodies were the cheapest Mopars to buy then and they draw less money at sale time now.
Being *** hurt over a guy that looks at building A bodies as UNprofitable is stupid. Would YOU pay the guy $90,000 to fully restore your slant six 64 Valiant? It could cost that much but no sensible person would pay that much.
Now, I’m not defending MW for anything else here. I agree that this show has continued a downhill slide in terms of its value to the viewers. Who the hell cares about any of the NON car banter? I don’t mind some joking and teasing but show some cars and explain some techniques.

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That would almost be believable except for the fact that other shops have done high dollar restorations on A-bodies. You can't just say it's unprofitable and no one does it- it's been done, the cars are out there, you can see them in the old magazines and they've been at the auctions. It's not unprofitable.

Worman has said directly and on camera that it's because of the money. That's suspect to me because even if you ignore the shops that have been restoring A-bodies, there are still plenty of shops (and even specialty shops) out there that restore cars that aren't worth B/E body type money that do just fine.

What does that mean? Well it means that Worman wants the kind of profit margins that restorations on B/E bodies bring. Now that could be a few things, it could just mean Worman's greedy/lazy and he gets to charge more for B/E body restorations for the same amount of work it would take to do an A-body. It could also mean he's not a very good businessman and he needs those kinds of margins to stay afloat.

So yeah, I'm not giving him a pass on anything. The show has always been about how dysfunctional Worman and his employees are, you can't actually watch that show and learn how to do anything useful mechanically.

70SwingerGuy said
Never said I was *** hurt, those are your words, I simply said I have no use for guys who are only into high dollar cars, I dont care what make they are building or representing.

Totally agree. GYC has always been about the purists and cars that get trailered around and hidden in garages, and the type of people that participate in this hobby as an investment and not because they truly enjoy building and driving old cars.