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Thank you.
Haha! I don't worry about the retirement thing. This truck bug has wormed in pretty deep and I have a line of projects to keep me busy until I'm too old to go on.

As for the hours, that all goes back to when I finished my first project. When I completed my 51 GMC, the appraiser asked how much money I had sunk into the truck, so I presented him with my binder of receipts and totals. He then asked how many hours I had into the truck as I built it myself. I said, "Hours?! Good grief, I don't even want to think about it."

He said, "You'd better think about it. It's part of the appraisal process."

Since then, I've tracked hours. It is scary how much time goes into them. I'm becoming more of a night owl, as that seems to be the time I can work on them with my kids growing so quickly.