I am not entirely opposed to hiring people to handle shit I cannot do.
I don't have, and cannot afford some critical tools.
I don't have an alignment rack.
I don't have the machines to mount or balance tires.
I don't have a paint booth.
I don't have a dyno.
The people I rail against are the folks who don't do anything at all.
They don't change oil.
They don't trouble shoot.
They don't make repairs.
They don't do mods.
There's too many people in that category.
I want to like them, but they keep wanting to act like their paying someone else is the same as my getting my hands dirty.
Watching the people entered into the Sick Week Drags rammed it home. Those people did their own shit because they couldn't take it to a shop when they bend a rod and need to be at the next stop in 12 hours.
Some of us ENJOY bending our own wrenches. It's fun to embarrass a water-cooled checkbook "hotrodder" with $3000 worth of roll yer own in the garage vintage tin.
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