Questions about First Kit Car in Texas

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Originally Posted by elmariachi

Silk scarf? $28. Driving gloves? $50. Pilotti driving shoes? $135. Only having to starve for 33 weeks to buy an unfinished Cobra replica still missing paint, tires, battery, driveshaft, transmission and engine? Priceless.

Sounds about right.

Thats how it goes you have a dream car and you pretty much spend your life savings. Its like you have a 60ftx40ft garage with a $80,000 kit car parked in it but your home is pretty much bare of furniture and you and your family is pretty much starving but you got your dream car.

God knows thats about how it would be for me. After I go the route I would love to I will end up with more money in the car than a person would think is sane. Almost $5,000 for the EFI webber setup with the computer for the engine id like to build for it. Some would say youd belong in a straight jacket for that much money for the induction system alone.

But in my defense though you only live once and I rather have fun and enjoy myself. I can always sell the car down the road if need be and recoupe some money out of it and the money I lost I will just equate it to the cost of having fun and enjoying yourself. Much better than to take a 4,000+ car and try to strip it down to build a race car when you could build one in kit form and drive it to work during the week, cruise and show it off on saturday, and race it on the track on sunday.