RANT OF THE MONTH BILL BOUZIDEN 63 CORVETTE

Call it what it is, I love your magazine, especially the hometown home built hot rods.  But I cringe, or laugh when I see articles and builds where a guy drops a car off at a builders and you folks write (Bill's quote) " I always wanted to build a Corvette coupe", And later Bill says "I built this car to drive and enjoy".  No Bill did not build it, Joe Brown built it for him.  You folks go to great lenghts telling us about Bill's shade tree experience and previous cars, yet it sounds like Bill stroked a check.  I picked out the colors, carpet, appliances in my home, I paid for it. I didnt build my house.
I am not one of these folks who disdains or looks down on people who buy cars, pay to have them restored - good on em, not everyone has the time, skills to do this and it preserves the history and hobby.  But for crying out loud, call it what it is - a commission to have a car built, a design or concept you had built.  Dont say you built it, you get no cred with that, and in the end, that is what Bill wanted, Street Cred with his cruise buddies.
I am building my 67 Mustang (Project 532 Gydyup), (one of you mags home built projects featured in Aug 09 Popular Hottrodding) I have more money than time (not a lot of either), and could have had it done. But I am doing what I know how, learning the other stuff as I go through it (much help from your mag), and could have been done a long time ago - but I chose to BUILD my car, not pay to have it built, a difference.  

Call it what it is, I dont STROKE checks!!!!! all cash baby.  Oh by the way, I build cars also........

BB  

PHR is known for its payment plan cars, even some of the project cars get this trust fund treatment.  

Payment plan cars? What's that mean, we pay for them instead of momma buying them for us?

It's true. I do have a car payment. Oh, the shame.  

Well Bill, maybe people might have rather seen something you actually built.  All he's saying is don't say you built it if all you did was pay for it.  Nothing wrong with getting things done by others if you don't have time or skill. I build mostly motorcycles and some cars and have had others do work for me for both the reasons I listed. But if I had a shop build it, it's their build and my property.  For me the building is most of the fun.  

BB: you know that Gydyup67 has a point, I build Engines for a living. I can't tell you how many times I heard that myself.

CASE IN POINT:  I built a rear for a guy, a good customer. I was at a small town car show. When directly in front of me is the car I did the rear for. I hear this guy (Not the the owner of the car either)telling some other person how he set up the rear and did this and that...LOL..

Of cousre the guy he was talking to didn't know what he had done to the car. (It was a 1967 Camaro RS. I did the engine for it and later I setup a 12 Bolt rear for the car.)The owner was doing things as the money came in and didn't skimp on the way it was done! I started talking to the story teller, I asked him what gears he used how he set them up etc. You get the picture. Well geuss what the guy that owned the car shows up. (The story teller had left). We started talking, and I told him the story. He went up one side of this guy and down the other. How much business did I loose I don't know? ...I laughed it off I had seen this guy around telling stories before. I nick-named him Nuts and Bolts. Anyway thats my 2 Cents... I don't want to start any wars, but I've seen it and heard it first hand....LOL....  
Thanks
Bob

BB you'll laugh at this too Nuts and Bolts looked the part of a grease monkey,if you could picture how a grease monkey would look..LOL