I bought my GTX 4 years ago. After some work getting her road confident both my daily driver and truck went down. The car took most my immediate savings so I had to drive a '69 GTX 4-speed 2 weeks to work and back in tough rush hour traffic thru 2 cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) And I swear everyone and and their grandmother were taking aim. Numerous close calls including getting ran off the road once. And an Uber driver buried his grill in the rear bumper in a parking lot. Pulled the 2 cars apart in front of police. Uber Honda grill gone with small radiator damage. GTX? Couldn't even see a smudge. (Steel won that encounter.)
So no. You are not alone on nervousness. And that's from a car with only about 20 hours and $500 in work. (After $20k purchase price.) I couldn't even imagine after a full restoration?
Quick walk around link below of car at purchase time. Somehow car in same condition today.
