67Monaco
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C body and profitable... I think you're on the wrong forum...
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C body and profitable... I think you're on the wrong forum...
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LOL! I've actually made a tidy profit on the C-body stuff I've pedaled so far and I'm pretty sure that car would have paid for itself rather quickly but then the rest of it would have just lingered too long I'm sure.
Clover
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I have some '72 and maybe '73 disc stuff.
Clover
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I forgot to mention that I have good ball joints for the '72 setup(s).
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Being that your '72 is a keeper, maybe you should hold on to those Bob.
commando1
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I've had a couple of sleepless nights obsessed over this lower ball joint thingie.
I had a Eureka moment when I figured out it's not the ball joint that makes them so expensive. It's the casting.
All the new ones require using the old casting. And that supply, being finite, is drying up. Gawd! How many of them went for a ride to the crusher? With the supply drying up, people with them have gold and they know it.
I'm going to do what 440 Source does. Get hold of a good casting and send it to China with a Post-it note stuck on it that says: "Make these. Call me when the container is full".
PLUS, I'll machine them here in a non-union profit center, jam a ball joint in it, and stick one of these printed in India labels..
I had a Eureka moment when I figured out it's not the ball joint that makes them so expensive. It's the casting.
All the new ones require using the old casting. And that supply, being finite, is drying up. Gawd! How many of them went for a ride to the crusher? With the supply drying up, people with them have gold and they know it.
I'm going to do what 440 Source does. Get hold of a good casting and send it to China with a Post-it note stuck on it that says: "Make these. Call me when the container is full".
PLUS, I'll machine them here in a non-union profit center, jam a ball joint in it, and stick one of these printed in India labels..
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67Monaco
Old Man with a Hat
Too expensive in a union profit center?
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
That was to appease Ross. Of course it would be in a Union shop that forced management to be efficient, employee friendly, and cost efficient. In it for the long haul and not interested in maximizing short term profits for the executives at the expense of a sustainable business plan that benefits the economy as a whole.
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67Monaco
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Talk about systematized delusions. But hey I've have to admire your stick-to-it-iveness.
Fratzog
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What a novel concept.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Like the current system works? That's delusional.
This is all FRIENDLY BANTER, btw...
67Monaco
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Like the current system works? That's delusional.
This is all FRIENDLY BANTER, btw...
No but that's not because of non-union work. It's because we stopped making corporations prove they're in business for the public good every 7 years somewhere back in like 1917. Back then in order to have protection of the gov't you had to prove public good. Now-a-days any joe blow can form a corporation.
It's not a worker/management/ownership issue, it's a government protection of rich individuals issue. If CEO's of large corp's were on the hook and personally liable, we'd have much more responsible entities. They don't hold rich folk personally accountable until they get to the Madoff level of fraud.
And Stanley, it's always in fun.
commando1
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And we are in 100% total agreement.
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