In the repair industry, as a rule of thumb, the bigger the wheels the cheaper the customer.
My favorite was the '73 Malibu (you know, the start of the ass-ugly years) riding on the butt-ugliest 20" wheels I have ever seen. Like, they had these bolt-in things in the wheels to go between the spokes, and about one in seven were missing or broken half off. Anyway, the guy wanted headers and the trans was slipping. The exhaust was a frightful nightmare so we budgeted for an entire exhaust system, the trans overhaul wasn't going to be too bad but there were issuesl ike the trans linkage was 3 feet of FUBAR and the trans lines looked like they were made by a retarded monkey after drinking a bottle of vodka, so we had to fix that too.
Anyway, being as cheap as we possibly could the estimate came to something like $2000 and the guy was bitching "what, do you think I'm made of money???"
OTOH, there's a nice Cutlass that we just finished a bunch of work on, I think the total bill is winding right up around $30k, and the guy basically keeps writing checks and asks if there's anything else we should take care of while it's in our care. (This is not counting the body/interior work that was done before it came to US)
People who have money and spend money, do not go out of their way to show it...
