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sfdaugherty wrote:Believe it or not, I will only have about $10K more in my SR20 swap than I have into my red 69 2000

"Only" $10K more? The way you say that, I'm thinking we're in waaaaaaaaay different pay grades, or at least amounts of disposable income.

sfdaugherty wrote: Of course every single bolt in the blue car (my SR swap) has been touched and probably replaced and everything has been painted, powder coated, chrome plated, ceramic coated, or zinc plated. My donor car was nothing but boxes of parts and I took it home INSIDE a uhaul truck.

I think $10k is real money in anyone's world. But when you start taking every single part off, and renewing or replacing everything, the money happens fast..

I'm guessing the red car was NOT a box of parts, so the surprise would be in the fact that he is building a show quality car for money that is not entirely insane..

Of course this is all my opinion, and worth exactly what you paid for it..nothing..

Mike

My 67.5 2000 took me about nine years, but I did 90% of the work. Would be great to send the body out and have all the body work done and painted thus giving me the luxury of working on something else. Better yet, it would be great to just buy one already complete. But my four kids and my wife want to eat and have a place to stay and occasionally want to be entertained on a weekend and I want my Roadster to be nice so time will always win on this one. My swap will be done when its finished. If you watch those car shows where they finish a car in like five days, count how many people really worked on the car besides the main dudes. At the end of the day though it feels good to look at my project and realize that I did a lot of it myself, even if that is many, many days

Ed Mason wrote: If you watch those car shows where they finish a car in like five days, count how many people really worked on the car besides the main dudes.

Not to mention the fact they have an almost unlimited budget. The real world is different, that's for sure.

My car will be no where near the quality of the Spriso cars but I'm like Ed; I'm very proud of how much I've done myself.

I sold my Dad's 68 1600 to help pay for this swap and worked a ton of overtime in 2007 and 2008.

Shannon