Well, I may have been thinking along the lines of not adding the cost of the rig to begin with.
Since most of us buy a truck to use as a driver, we then start to modify and add stuff to it sooner or later.
My point is, some of us may have a bone stock truck and when they see something like this, they start to dream. And sometimes dreaming can lead to reality. So where the reality actually begins, the money starts adding up. So I generally don't add the cost of the rig to begin with because its not the deciding factor in the overall cost.
Some rigs may be junkers and some may be cherry. I don't think its fair to have a final overall cost to a rig depending on the condition of the truck to begin with.
When someone says their project cost, say, $20K, then the truck must have been in real good shape and cost around, say, $6K. So $14K into it and if someone else had a beater that was only paid $2K for, then does that justify $18K into the completed project? Maybe so, maybe not. I just don't think its right to add the cost of the rig into the overall number. Everything can be stripped right back off and you're right where you started again.
I don't know. This is just the way I see it. I think I could build a truck like this knowing I could find a base truck to begin with and it would be a cheap truck to start. But if someone else had a cherry rig, then that offsets the cost and adds more to the overall amount. What do you say on the amount if a truck has been handed down to you from a family member? You can't add an amount to the overall cost since it didn't cost you anything.
Catch my drift now?
