Re: Mopar Swap Meet additions

[Dennis <djohn14296@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well put, no flaming from this end. :-)

--- Skagdrager@xxxxxxx wrote:

 
> Sorry, Guys. But this is America. It's capitalism.
> It ain't perfect, but it's 
> better than any other plan around.
> Granny isn't "crazy for getting $1000 for an old
> crappy 4dr; she's stupid if 
> she passes it up if she can get it. And just cause
> she asks for $1000 doesn't 
> mean she'll get it. The market determines that.
> Available used parts will get more and more scarce,
> until there just aren't 
> any at all. And prices will go up and up. Has it
> ever been any other way, 
> during your lifetime? Why expect anything else. We
> are American men. We learn to 
> deal with adversity. If this hobby were easy,
> everyone would do it. It's the 
> difficulty that makes it great! That's why we get
> the "thumbs up" on the highway 
> from passersby.
> The guy who owns a wrecking yard with old Mopars in
> it has limited choices. 
> He has to show a profit or he has to close his
> doors. Pay him what he needs and 
> it will be worthwhile for him to hang on to and part
> out the Mopars; refuse 
> to pay him what he needs and he will either crush
> them and make room for 
> something that has profit in it or he will hang on
> to them so long that they will 
> cut his profitability and his business will go
> under. And if he (or the people 
> on Ebay, or the guys reproducing parts) are greedy
> and overprice their parts so 
> they never sell, then they are the losers again. And
> in any of the above, you 
> lose; you don't get the parts.
> I don't mind your complaining about it. I don't like
> paying more either. I 
> look for bargains anywhere I can find them.
> But let's not lie to ourselves and say that because
> available parts are high 
> priced, or because we'll never get to buy the car we
> had way back when, then 
> somebody out there is a dirty scum bag. 
> The older I get the more convinced I am that God
> allowed man to invent the 
> automobile to teach him patience on multiple levels.
> Let's not miss the valuable 
> lesson.
> If I can't afford a Max Wedge (and I can't), then
> let me find my joy in the 
> cool Valiant slant 6 within my reach. Heck, have I
> forgotten that Thanksgiving 
> was only over last week?
> Come on people now.........smile on your
> brother.....everybody get together, 
> try to love one another right now.
> 
> Sorry. I'd better end my sermon now because my
> tongue is now poking all the 
> way through my cheek!
> You guys are the best and I need you and appreciate
> your help. May God bless 
> you all and may He help us all to find what we truly
> need.
> Paul
> (For the flaming I am about to receive, may God make
> me truly thankful.)



Dennis

'04 Ram Hemi





		
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