The Cheapest Possible Collective A-Body Build

I had a 71 Demon318 given to me cuz the motor quit running. I put a used 340 timing set on it and sold it for $350 to a kid, with the proviso that I'd give him $50 for it anytime he wanted to get rid of it. A few months later the kid needs $50 so the car shows up at my house, a lil banged up.
So I slap some used parts on it , and sold her to the kid's buddy for another $350. A few months go by, and the Demon is back with a blown rearend. I buy it back for $50.I just happen to have a rear end and shortly she is for sale again. Another $350 to a third buddy. And so it goes for several years. I don't recall how many times I flipped her like that, but in the late 70s, that was a lotta coin.
Some of those boys are dead now, I think most of them. Even my kid brother who was about the third purchaser. I think, at one time, I even sold or rented it to my next-in-line brother, and you guessed it, he's dead too.
Whoa, Demon-car? lol.
Actually I rented that car out by the week a few times.
Hyup, those were the says.

BTW
any of you readers want a great-shifting factory-stock A904, that Demon had the best. I took it out one day, after the car came back with a burned up tranny, and cloned that 904 about three or four times. I kept the original,installed a clone, and resold that Demon,of course. And over the years the clones have gone into other cars. But, I have the original still going strong behind my at-one-time, winter-engine. That was/is the best-shifting factory A904 I ever had the pleasure to drive.
I still got the engine too.
After the last time it came back, I had to retire that Demon, the body was just too badly decayed. And banged up, having seen so many teenage drivers.. I bet I made more money on that car than what it sold for when new,lol.
But think about this;
the car was a 1971, and the sales began in year about 1978. So these boys were buying a 7/8/9 yearold car for 10% of new. Heckuva deal. And it came with a 100% buyback plan, no questions asked. One kid brought it back for the $50 to buy weed with; hey not my problem......