I am one who used to spend money all the time. Just tell me what the monthly payments are and where to sign. Working for a new car dealership as a technician, you see the paychecks go up and down a lot. I bracket raced occasionally but never got to serious. Sometime around the turn of the century, I started seeing the work changing, which meant more wildly swinging paychecks. And the last few years have gotten worse. Living in central Ohio, you constantly see in the paper or on the news about companies shutting down. About 4-5 years ago I started getting more into my income/expenses. Total card debt now is less then $400, Tahoe will be paid off in 4 months and house is on the downhill side.
What does all this mean? I bought my Starfire last year to build as a stocker, a dream of mine. Work has been going at a crawl because I am trying to pay for everything as I go. Bargains always help as I found a set of new pistons on ebay for 0.99. Thats right and I was the only bidder. So total with shipping was just over $13! Goal at the beginning of the project was to have it running before the end of '07. It changed to maybe summer/fall of '08. Now I am not sure about making it this fall, maybe by next year. And after it is running, I still need a way to get it to the track. Enclosed trailer would be nice but an open one is looking better all the time.
Guess there are always something more important comes up and our fun hobby will have to take a back seat,
