Owner built on a budget;

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Hey Everybody: Looks like we had some interesting discussions over the day regarding original and not so original. I almost hesitate to post this, but I think others may enjoy and learn from my build.

Sorry this first post will be a little lengthy,
my car was delivered to Calif bay area in spring of 1991. it never got finished.

I found it on cragslist for 8.5K. It came with motor, trans, rearend, and hopefully all the small stuff needed to complete the build. I have no idea how many people bought and resold it. The guy I got it from only had the car for a year.

I am a car guy, any moron that wants to challenge that bring him on. Just because I decided to build a kit makes me no less of a gearhead. I will match up what is in my barn with any other white collar worker in the USA.

Back to the car. I have budgeted another 3K to finish this car for a total cost of 11.5K for a finished car. I figure it to take 500 hours to build the car.

With what I have spent so far I have about 2850.00 left to spend, and about 470 hours to complete it.

My goal is to have it finished for Sac Auto Rama second week of February.

I will do all the work myself, paint it in my barn. I will share my experiences here and as already noted rely on you guys to help me with lots of tech stuff.

I have made a couple of blog entries here. If interested read those and it will fill you in on the last couple of days.

As soon as I figure how to reduce file size I will post pictures.

For those looking to build one of these the first thing to do is find someone with a unfinished project. I actually found three of them within 6 months. all priced for 8.5K and each deal was better than the first.

I figure I at least got 16K value in my purchase, this put me way ahead of the curve. I made my purchases a couple years ago in a better economy, now a person should be able to find equally better deals.

Ray