As usual, I see things a bit differently. I came out of the last great debacle (remember Jimmy Carter?) in great shape. Scarfed up some real estate and muscle cars for a song, and sold them for a ridiculously high profit...... Definitely a buyers market these days, though I still see some of the big buck buyers of very high quality cars willing to fork over the big bucks for the really top notch cars.... With all the media hype about everybody being broke and unemployed, we're still so busy at the shop barely have time to turn around....turned down a couple jobs today in favor of some more preferred type work.....

I see a lot of folks buying into the hoopla, as they did in the 80's, and giving up on everything and complaining about how terrible the government is.....Nothing new there, the government been going downhill at a fast rate for better then 40 years now..... Doubt I'll be waiting for any mandated incentives or bailouts to come my way, though a bailout for crippled up, over the hill, pony-tailed radical Hot Rod builders would certainly be welcome!!!!!

As usual, some of my Dad's philosophy seems to be appropriate, "The Lord helps them who help themselves." Getting ahead in the current doom and gloom media hyped economic condition may not be easy, guess if it was easy everybody would show some big gains.... Time again to analyze and adjust one's business practices and lifestyle, and be on the winning side for the next economic upswing.... Or, another of Dad's favortie sayings, "Those who fail to plan must be planning to fail". Just simple old Norwegian wisdom, I don't do well on the long involved theories so I gotta stick with the easy stuff!!!!!