Build Costs

[first69]

I’ve been a member of the site for quite a while now and love watching and learning about all of the builds. The posts always offer a lot of information and provide motivation to work on my own project. My question involves the financial portion of car building. I watch all of the awesome builds on here, go to numerous car shows every year, subscribe to magazines, etc. and the one thing that I seem to have the hardest time understanding is how do people afford some of the cars I see. I am 40 years old, married, two kids, we have what I would consider an “average” or comfortable income, excellent credit and we are very responsible with our money but I couldn’t even come close to being able to afford some of the builds I see. I know this is a personal or private subject for most people but I would love to see any responses on how “most” people do it. Are they in crazy debt, credit cards, inheritances or just filthy rich??