And people have fallen off of 10 story buildings and survived...
Point is, there's not a lot of parts for these things.
Tim wrote:
> I got my roll bar for the cost of shipping from CA to WI. Thanks again to the
>person who "sold" it to me!
>
>
>
> ---- Eddie <eddietude@socal.rr.com> wrote:
>
> =============
> You're kidding, right? The vendors get at least $300 for those, and more.
>
> Keep in mind the following:
>
> Datsun Roadsters haven't been manufactured in over 40 years.
>
> When they were, I read somewhere that only about 5,000 cars of both
> models were imported to the US each year. That's 5000 1600's and 5,000
> 2 liters.
> So were talking about 10,000 cars a year. Of those, probably half are
> long gone. Trashed, crashed, crushed, left to rot, and not worth anything.
>
> Of the one's left, less than half are runners, the others are parts
> cars, and the parts cars are being sold off every year, leaving less and
> less parts.
>
> I'm always amazed at how people seem to want the cars themselves to be
> worth a ton of money once restored, but they think the parts should be
> cheap, when there are so few of them!
>
> Eddie
>
>
>
>
> Tom PRATHER wrote:
>
>> Another add from yesterdays Craigslist for roll bar. Sounds rather pricey.
>>
>> http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv/pts/1635359874.html
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