The cost of a car
 

Well, I have to admit something. When I first started this as an idea. I traded a few posts on here about the cost of building this 1979 Firebird as a stocker. Some of you guys threw some pretty hefty numbers at me. Being an old hardhead, I refused to believe it would cost near what many said.

I'm adjusting my vein of thought! Basically, this car has only been moved from the original owners garage to mine and other than collecting pieces, nothing has really been accomplished. I've already spent $3200.00. Now, I'm going to say for cast off parts and swap meet junk, I've aquired some decent parts, a few new. I haven't even scratched the surface of this project yet.

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The journey to completion [ running under the index ] Priceless!!!

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The common thinking for alot of us geezers now is to buy a done car. People enter and exit racing on a regular basis.Sadly 50 cents on the dollar is top price residual on even a competitive car.

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Figure out how much you want to spend in total.......then triple it and you might be in the ballpark.

JimR

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And triple the time to finish also...

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If your doing it your self ...it takes a lot of time....( been working on my street/strip car for 6 months & it still hasn't fired...but it's close!)

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Let's see, triple the time and triple the money. You guys have got me depressed now, LOL!

We've argued this before. This time around, I see it. Not going to stop me from going forward. My experience (sadly been more than 2 decades ago) in building cars, progress comes in bunches. That's generally been as time and money become both available and used wisely. Sometimes that doesn't always happen.

We'll see.

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fast and easy way

http://www.racingjunk.com/category/3...-firebird.html

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After being out of it for a while I just decided that I missed racing and wanted to go again. I've "been there and done that" on buying a stock car, putting a BUNCH of time and money into it, and selling it for one reason or another; usually losing a ton on them. Decided there was a better way to do it. I wanted a street/street Impala SS and having built one before (and having to sell it during a divorce and lost my butt on it!) I knew exactly what I wanted and how it should be built. I found the exact car (very lucky I know) that I wanted less than two hours from me. I'm not ashamed to say the guy that built it had $40,000 in receipts (yes, I added them up) and it was built with very good parts and just the way I wanted it. He was getting married and had lost interest in the car so I got it for less than 1/4 of what he had in it and that doesn't even count his time. I hope to have this car forever and maybe change a few small things but I would personally never build one from scratch again.

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lot cheaper to buy a car from someone who has had enough !

jack

p.s. Yacavone has a KILLER for very little, buy car, buy gas, buy number, qualify #1...easy