should pull the trigger

cosgig said

IMO, it's always better to seek out a factory performance, numbers correct car, which hold their value much better than a clone car! Doesn't matter what you have into it, it is what the market will bear! I could easily spend $30k redoing my 66 Valiant convertible, doesn't mean I will receive even 1/2 of that back if I were to try to sell it! That's why it's better to build the car you want to keep forever than to build up a car that you may sell in the future, especially if it's not a factory performance model!

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so very true. costs of restoring??? it costs about the same to do the body/paint, engine, trans, rear, interior, suspension , etc tec...on a , for example, SLANT duster made into a 340 clone as it does to say restore a real 340 duster. yes the initial cost of the project will be A LIITLE more, but not THAT much!

if a person likes to restore cars, and then has to sell that car to fund another. perhaps he needs to either : be wealthy,... do ALL his own work, .... not restore a car to the extent there are NO buyers for what he has in it??

as cosig said, what you sell anything for depends on the market, has nothing to do with what it costs to get that project from " out of the weeds" to "restored"! sad fact of life.