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Re: Shop costs and rates

To: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Subject: Re: Shop costs and rates
From: fred thomas <vafred@erols.com>
Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 14:54:03 -0700
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
References: <199805101831.OAA11328@mime3.prodigy.com> <3555F9E7.448B@greenheart.com> <3555FFFA.94B60F20@gte.net>
Joe Curry wrote:
> 
> Justin Wagner wrote:
> >
> > This is all true. And it's very important for enthusiasts to consider
> > this when they take their car to a mechanic.
> >
> > Nevertheless, ....
> 
> While all this is certainly true, additional pressure and expense is
> being heaped onto the small business owner in the form of Insurance
> costs, OSHA requirements and environmental impact requirements.  So most
> of the presumed, "profit markup" is in fact markup that is necessary to
> cover the additional cost of doing business in our highly litigious and
> over-regulated society.
> 
> This regulation mentality is also spilling over onto us
> "do-it-yourself'ers" in the form of laws that prevent the purchase of or
> use of things like nitrocellulose laquer-based paints for example.
> Also, with the tightening of emissions standards, some states are making
> up laws that have the effect of requiring the crushing of old cars.
> This, if allowed to escalate, will make used parts and restoration
> candidates much more difficult to obtain.
> 
> I for one welcome the opportunity to circumvent costly processed
> historically performed by high-priced commercial shops.  Now, if someone
> could only come up with a DYI home chrome kit......
> 
> Joe Curry
> 
> --
> "If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort."
> 
>  -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer

O/K Joe here you go==http://www.caswellplating.com  315-597-5140- in N.Y.


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