[JMD]

Frankly we spent a lot,,, but we would have upgraded everything we ended up changing out anyway... so we could have paid more for a v-8 that needed more work and ended up spending even more...

We did not build the car as an investment. And even with what we did spend we could not have bought a new car as nice for the $$...

If we had bought a new car instead, we would have lost a third of the value when we drove it off the lot.....

Hmm... the 66 certainly was not an investment,,,, but still, we are a LOT better off now than if we had dumped the same money into a new car. This imaginary new car would now be worth even less than the coupe we built...

Just depends on how a person looks at things...

Who has a car that they bought new that is now worth as much as it cost?

I don't think we will get MANY credible POSITIVE answers here....