40th Birthday for my HQ sandman

[wbute]

The parts price and repair price do not equal the sale price. Otherwise every car would be worth the rebuild price. They are not. It's purely demand driven. That doesn't mean that they are value for money though. Sandmans have jumped from $30000 restored on this site to supposedly $70000 in about three years. The input cost to repair has not changed by 50%!
There are lots of things to identify a Sandman.... Sometimes. None of them are a model code. Stickers were only optional on HZ.
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You Only Live Once

AFATMASP.
A fool and their money are soon parted.

[steve1975]

The wealthy fools you speak of are enthusiasts also, they possibly just don't have time or the skills required to do the job. If they want a HQ sandman this one is ready to go. Or they can wait for a few years for a restoration project to come on the market, spend four years restoring, and (boom) their dream is complete in 7 years. That's if you can find a HQ in 3 years, and your the lucky one to get it between 5,000 10,000 dollar asking prices.

I'll see where the wind takes me.