{"id":679,"date":"2019-02-19T20:04:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T20:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chromenrust.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2019-02-19T20:04:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T20:04:30","slug":"rust-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chromenrust.com\/?p=679","title":{"rendered":"RUST VALLEY"},"content":{"rendered":"

HARD TO BELIEVE <\/span><\/strong>that someone like me could approach any subject with an open mind.\u00a0 If you caught my Facebook post, you saw that I called Rust Valley Restorations a “train wreck”<\/em>.\u00a0 <\/em>In this particular instance, any publicity is good publicity.<\/p>\n

SOME OF YOU may remember a posting shared on Face Book of a cache of vintage muscle cars and other collectible vehicles for sale somewhere out in B.C. with an asking price somewhere North of a million bucks. I was curious, but the posting shared few details.\u00a0 Thanks to some of the producers of ‘Highway Thru Hell’, we now know who we are dealing with.\u00a0 The show’s preview clips showed a larger than life persona named Mike Hall- who looked amazingly like the ‘Rasta Blasta’ from HTH. No mistake there.\u00a0 Good gig: blow up rocks and collect cars found through your travels.<\/p>\n

I’ve done something similar through years of hauling scrap cars as a day job.\u00a0 Now that age is creeping up on us, we now want to be rewarded for preserving some vehicles that may have otherwise been lost. *** If you are calling ‘bullshit’ here, just take a trip down to the local scrapyard here and look at what is now sitting on their scrap pile now that I am no longer hauling scrappers.\u00a0 At least I used to save about one in ten.<\/p>\n

WHAT <\/strong>you may be wondering is why is this guy struggling financially? Having a collection like this should be like a license to print money.\u00a0 Perhaps something not sufficiently emphasized here is the fact that he put out good money up front to buy these treasures, then there is the overhead of carrying such a collection.\u00a0 How about having to pay salaries and buy parts and materials? Does anyone make money doing restorations?\u00a0 Those whales who fund the six figure builds are few and far between.<\/p>\n

SO, besides the 300 vehicle inventory on several acres, what else do we have in common? (See picture following text.) We may just seem a little un-approachable at first brush. Let’s just say you get that way after a few decades in the business.\u00a0 I don’t blow shit up, but I can sure take shit apart.<\/p>\n

ONCE you get past the fact that the Rust Valley show is hard to watch at times, what is the takeaway here?\u00a0 The way things are going, car collections (or hoards) found in little backwater towns are headed for extinction.\u00a0 When the cost of opening the gate isn’t being met- things have to change.\u00a0 Most of the time, that involves the arrival of a crusher.\u00a0 People need to step up to support operations like ours.\u00a0 We aren’t hoarders- we are preservationists. We are only holding onto our inventory until someone- a serious buyer steps up recognizing the value of the service that we provide.<\/p>\n

SINCE <\/strong>you’re here, check out the rest of my website, but keep in mind that it doesn’t even scratch the surface.\u00a0 For a 50 cent tour of The Chrome N Rust world headquarters, give me a call @ 403-341-3708.\u00a0 If I like you, I may even forgo the 50 cent admission.\u00a0 To see how it really is on the other side of the mountains, visit rustbrosrestos.com
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HARD TO BELIEVE that someone like me could approach any subject with an open mind.\u00a0 If you caught my Facebook post, you saw that I called Rust Valley Restorations a “train wreck”.\u00a0 In this particular instance, any publicity is good publicity. SOME OF YOU may remember a posting shared on Face Book of a cache… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chromenrust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chromenrust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chromenrust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chromenrust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chromenrust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/chromenrust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"http:\/\/chromenrust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chromenrust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chromenrust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chromenrust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chromenrust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}