Trying to finally get my first Muscle Car - I’m nervous

72bluNblu said

2. Terrible advice. All classics are money pits. Most of your money is made on the purchase, the rest is inflation and what's currently popular. The money you put into them after you buy them is almost always a loss. This is especially true if you're paying someone else to work on them. I love working on my cars and ALL of them are projects. Which is why I can say I would totally have been "ahead" in most cases buying a finished car. If you've got the money to buy a finished one, don't buy a project.

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Money wise, yeah. But you just tend to appreciate the cars you put the work into a whole lot more. They become sentimental and almost a part of the family. Like I could buy my dream car which would be a Vanishing Point Challenger but it just wouldn't hold the same value to me personally as my slant six Duster, despite being worth 10x more. It's just a totally different feeling (which I'm sure you know). You can always shell out the cash for something but driving them and knowing that you put in all the work to make that happen is one of the things that makes the hobby special.

It also makes you incredibly paranoid as well because you know how quickly some dummy can come along and mess up thousands of hours of work and dollars in an instant.