[Roadsters] Roll bar tall

[Eddie]

And people have fallen off of 10 story buildings and survived...

Point is, there's not a lot of parts for these things. 

Tim wrote:
> I got my roll bar for the cost of shipping from CA to WI. Thanks again to the person who "sold" it to me!
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> ---- Eddie <eddietude at socal.rr.com> wrote: 
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> You're kidding, right?  The vendors get at least $300 for those, and more.
>
> Keep in mind the following:
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> Datsun Roadsters haven't been manufactured in over 40 years.
>
> When they were, I read somewhere that only about 5,000 cars of both 
> models were imported to the US each year.  That's 5000 1600's and 5,000 
> 2 liters.
>  So were talking about 10,000 cars a year.  Of those, probably half are 
> long gone.  Trashed, crashed, crushed, left to rot, and not worth anything.
>
> Of the one's left, less than half are runners, the others are parts 
> cars, and the parts cars are being sold off every year, leaving less and 
> less parts. 
>
> I'm always amazed at how people seem to want the cars themselves to be 
> worth a ton of money once restored, but they think the parts should be 
> cheap, when there are so few of them! 
>
> Eddie
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> Tom PRATHER wrote:
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>> Another add from yesterdays Craigslist for roll bar. Sounds rather pricey.
>>
>> http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv/pts/1635359874.html
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