You said it better than I did mike.

Alistair

> On Apr 16, 2016, at 5:53 PM, Mike Stewart <mikestew@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> He says he's $100k into it. I believe him, but he's going to take a big loss.
> 
> Only a tiny, tiny percentage of people selling things with wheels
> *don't* take a loss, meaning they sell it for less than they put into
> it. Now, hopefully one has traded the cost of deprecation for time
> enjoying the vehicle. He put $100K into the vehicle? Well, hope that
> wasn't his retirement money, because the vehicle is worth what someone
> is willing to pay, and all the receipts in the world won't change the
> fact that it's an unfinished Synchro project that'll take a ton of
> work to finish. Land Rover seats don't offset the fact that is has
> practically no interior. Of course, there's a reason it hasn't sold
> after multiple years.
> 
> Every dime I put into our '81, every hour of sweat over that engine
> bay, every mod and doo-dad I put in/on it, I expect nothing back. If
> we're lucky, maybe we'll get the original price out of if and when we
> sell it. Because the money, sweat, and time I put into that vehicle is
> for *us*. I don't expect the next person to pay me back for it. "Look,
> I have receipts!" Yeah, well, receipts can't cover up bad taste. :-)
> 
> But $100K later, and he still can't take it camping this weekend? Man,
> someone ripped him off. Too bad that someone is him.
> --
> Mike Stewart