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Articles on Autos | Topics: autos, auto, automobiles, automobile
by Lalage J. Everett
My mom always told me that I did everything the hard way. She was right. It held me back for most of my childhood. I would remember my textbook word for word instead of skimming for facts. I would take three times as long as I really needed to write an essay. My thoroughness was killing me. This held me back all through high school and college, making my social life more difficult and my academic life less effective. However, it did do one thing for me: it gave me a career.
You see, fixing salvage title cars requires a certain kind of perversity and masochism. You can make a lot of money buying and fixing repairable autos, but you need to have a real love of doing things the hard way. The reason, you see, a car is labeled totaled when it gets into a bad wreck is not because it is literally impossible to fix – almost no car is literally impossible to fix. It is simply because it is too much bother and too expensive to put back together. Someone like me, however – someone with connections to an auto parts store, a knack for fixing severely broken cars, and an incredible tenacity – can make a handy profit on repairable autos. I can get a car for a tiny fraction of what it is worth, and turn it into a gleaming, purring machine.
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The reason American cars don’t sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That’s why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.
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You'd be amazed at what you can find it is used car auctions. As a matter of fact, I don't always buy damaged cars. Sometimes, salvage title cars work completely fine. People aren't confident in them because they know that they may have serious and undiscovered damage to the frame. For a guy like me, it doesn't matter. If there is damage anywhere, I'll find it and fix it. I'll install replacement engines, rebuild transmissions, and do any other work that I need to. Fixing repairable autos can be quite a hassle, but it is still a labor of love. And because I love to do it, I do it well.
A lot of my customers are so impressed with the work fixing repairable autos that they decide to try the business for themselves. Although this can be a great idea for the right kind of person, in general I don't recommend it. Even seized government auction cars can have hidden problems that will result in huge expenses if you do not know what you are doing. Leave fixing repairable autos to the experts.
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