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Originally Posted by cluxford
Interesting thread, and so chillingly accurate.
Let me say up front:
1. My car building skills are crap. they are OK but not show quality
2. I run my own business and have a young daughter and a wife who could care less about cars (sees them as a waste of time and money)
But from the age of 10 I have wanted a killer Camaro, as the years went buy and cars I could afford came and went, I said I was going to build a top shelf car, and do it soon.
Worked my butt off and got the money.
I had a budget, and I am the first to openly admit that budget was $180K (aussie). I planned to outsource the entire build due to skills and time. I expected it to be 3 years.
Well, I am just over 3 years into the build. It will probably take another 6 months to complete
It's also looking like I'll end up around $250K Aussie.
I can tell ya freight costs for me for all the goodies from Prodigy, the car itself, Bill Mitchell, DSE and Summit to name just a few is in the thousands.
Good news is my car is almost exactly the plan, very little if anything changed, just under estimated the cost to do it.
This car is a life long dream that will soon be complete.
And it will be driven !!
Bottom line, budgets are essential in this game, even for those spending a lot of money on these cars. It's not hard to spend 6 figures on these cars, but even he best budgets can be easily blown.....
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250K??? What was the Dollar at when you bought?
