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Originally Posted by 509Chevelle
All I can say is you are not alone brother. I feel your pain. I am roughly $70K into my Chevelle and to me it doesn't look like the other guys cars who have spent a whole lot less. I have put on brakes only to change them out and buy something different. Bought suspensions, changed it. Bought wheels, didn't like them and sold them to buy another set. Bought rear ends, changed them. Just recently, last July of '08, I put in a TKO 600. Only put approx 150 miles on it. Just sold it and my big block and bought a T56 Magnum with an LS 6.0. Then to top it all off...my dumb ass just went and bought a '68 SWB C10 in December "08 and have already spent about $5k on it including the price of the truck with parts. Seriously, if I had all the money I've spent on cars and BS over the years my savings account would literally be at a balance of about $110k. I swear!! They say it's not good to swear, but I swear!!!! It's a good thing my wife knows nothing about cars. I buy something and she'll ask how much does it costs. I'll say $200, but it's about $1000. Or I'll sell something on ebay for chump change like $100 and I'll say I sold it for $900 to buy something else that's expensive. Hey!! I know I'm no better than a crackhead, heroin addict or alcoholic.
****PS, don't tell my wife. LOL!!
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And there in lies one of the problems!!!
So many guys do this it is crazy. Hell I have ALWAYS done this. untill I built the Nova, take my Camaro drag race car (oh drag cars are the WORST!) it has had 3 different motors it is now getting its 4th transmission and is on its second rear end. Oh and 3rd paint job.... wait second set of wheels, 3rd front suspension, second interior lol WTF am I doing????
The nova on the other hand was built to do a job and i think it does it admirably, not the fastest car arround but it can hold it's own.but it will get NO changes. I did 90% of the work myself and without labor I think I have 65k into the car, including buying the car, that is probably cheap, I got a good deal on all the suspension and the rest of the parts I pulled some favors, but still it is on it's second motor cuz I didn't spend enough on the first one.
So if I added it up the camaro probably has over 150 in it and I am thinking of selling it for 18k, again WTF???
I try to stress to customers to START with a budget and work backwards from there. and DON"T CHANGE YOUR MIND OR ADD STUFF!!!
take 100k build and break it down backwards so to speak using the major parts motor trans body/paint wheels interior and TAXES what is left?
it doesn't matter how much these cars cost to build.... it come down to how much can you afford!!! like Rodger said you can have a BITCHIN Camaro for 2 million!!! If you don't have 2 million to spend it is kinda a non issue.