OT: R.I.P. Roy, Boyd Loses the Best he had... Options

[Britain Smith]

Just wanted to take a second to honor Roy on American Hotrod (Boyd's Cottington). I just heard about him passing away...must say I will miss him. He was definitely the best that Boyd had...true craftsman. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/welder.gif)

-Britain

[LvSteveH]

If you watched NASA build the space shuttle, you wouldn't go up in that either. If you helped build the stratosphere tower in Vegas, you probably wouldn't want to take your kids up there.

That's the way it always is. It's virtually impossible to build custom cars at a semi-production pace, and not have some quick fixes and fitting issues. I seriously doubt anyone can build a perfect, full custom car, to show standards, that will turn a profit in the end. Even if you pay everyone minimum wage, it would still be tough if you accounted for every hour spent on the car; and we are talking about $100k+ cars. To not have any issues at all, you'd have to have a team of veteans that command $50 an hour, what would the car cost then? You'd spend $100k on labor before you bought the car or the first part.

Oh, and with regard to Roy: He welded the door shut on one of the cars as a joke, using oxy fuel. He was standing outside the car, holding the torch way out, and the filler rod about 30" from the end, and managed a very nice clean bead, it's difficult to comprehend how hard that is, and with the camera rolling to boot.