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Bhigdog last won the day on February 8 2023

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  1. Pa has vanity plates and only recently allowed YOM plates. Maybe 20 years ago I had a 1939 plate restored for my 1939 PU truck. I wanted to use it so I drove to Harrisburg right to DMV head quarters. I took the plate along and I asked the nice girl at the counter if that particular number was active. A few clicks on the key board and she said no. I said "OK i want to register my 1939 truck and use that plate. She said I couldn't do that. I asked why not it's a PA plate with an open number. She said she didn't know why not. I asked her if she could find out why not, it's a PA plate after all. She said "be right back" took the plate and left. Came back shortly and said "Wrong material, wrong color, and non reflective.............. Case closed. So I asked if that particular number was assigned to a vanity plate. She looked at me sweetly and said "don't even think about it." So..........I bought a regular plate, put it in the glove box, put the YOM plate on the truck and I've been using it ever since. Plan "c" if I'm ever stopped I'll claim I'm old and confused and just came from a show and forgot to put the real one back on. " I'll do that right now officer. Thank you for pointing that out." It should work, I think...............Bob
  2. I occassionaly take on one off type work for fellow hobbyists. When the job is completed all i ask for is the cost of material and postage plus whatever they feel it is worth to them. All but one has been fair and even generous. Except for one guy i spent a day for making a leather die and 8 pieces. He sent me $10 postage. And so it goes......bob
  3. Just trying to show that there's lots of sides to the story and lots of ways to look at it. In my case I got my money's worth in satisfaction figuring out how to and actually making the tools and clips and helping the guy out. If I was a for profit business I likely could not have afforded it. And as silly as it sounds I get satisfaction by holding, in my hand, the likely only known new 1956 Chrysler wind shield clips in existence. How many people can say that?.........😁 ...............Bob
  4. There is absolutely no one size fits all answer to the OP's question. There are just too many variables to each and any situation. For example...... When I restored my 56 Chrysler I needed tail light, parking light and back up lenses. They were/are unobtainium. While I was showing my 55 Buick at the New Bern Grand nationals I met a guy that was showing his 56 Chrysler. In conversation I mentioned that I was restoring one and could not find lenses. He said he had several sets and he would send me a set gratis. He was as good as his word and a week later UPS brought me a set. Fast forward a year or so and he contacted me looking for a set of 11 good 56 Chrysler windshield trim clips. They are one year only and do not exist. The only examples are well rusted and fragile. I had enough barely usable examples but no spares. I had enough to use for my car but because of his extraordinary generosity I decided to make them. I knew the market was extremely thin but I figured I could at least help a few others. The die sets, other tooling and proto typing took about 70 hours before I had a good example. The average shop rate is now about $125 per hour. Do the math. It takes about 6 hours to hand make a set of 11.........Do the math I gave a set to my benefactor, I kept a set for my car, and made a few extra sets, of which I sold exactly one. The one set I sold netted me $110. So the point of the story is... Try to figure the logic of that one out. Yet it happened because of one guys generosity. Below are pix of the tooling and of an original, in process and completed re-pro clip................Bob
  5. My take on the situation is you likely saved them many hours of R & D time and the expense of many bad prototype parts. A few years back A repro parts supplier used my 56 Chrysler as a test vehicle for a rear glass gasket they wanted to market. After they sent and I critiqued two attempts they had it correct. They sent me one of the the first correct examples as payment for my time and as a thank you. They got hours of free R & D. I got paid in a part I needed. Everyone got a piece of the pie. That's exactly as it should be............Bob
  6. Happy Shaint Patty's (hic) Day.............Bob
  7. Some times "conveniently"........ Best to just "Ask the man who owns one."
  8. As did I. So the destination was worth the journey. I'm pleased to hear that..............Bob
  9. Somehow I think you are located in PA. If so Bloomsburg Metal in Wilkes Barre carries sheet steel both hot and cold rolled from 10 to 26 gauge. The hot rolled is pickled and oiled to remove the scale. They sell in small lots ( single 4 X 8 ) for PU at facility. Looking at your fenders I'd think something like 14 gauge. Just sayin..........Bob
  10. I bought several cars from Mass with only a notorized bill of sale that PA recognized and issued a title upon payment of PA sales tax. My impressikn was PA is aware of every states title laws and accomodates accordingly.... bob
  11. Interesting. Here in PA a few years back i bought a new $50,000 tractor from a dealer. It came with no title. I traded in a tractor at that time, dealer didn,t ask for a title......bob
  12. Ah yes. What a wonderful and brave new forum it would be. Free at last of the trouble makers expressing a difference of opinion or suggesting a possible improvement to the status quo. Why should there be change? ............"We've always done it this way." The forum will then be free of contrasting views and expressions of minor discontent. We can then all resist urge to think and question. Secure in the knowledge that others always know what is best...................Bob
  13. Hot rolled usually has surface scale and not as smooth of a surface. The scale is very hard, abrasive, and hard to remove..justsayin......bob
  14. The question was posed as a generality. I certainly wasn't referencing any specific, anticipated, or proposed lash up. Like I said, I find the idea interesting and I was "just asking"...............Bob
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