Well, won’t be racing anytime soon

I don’t care if you’re twenty five or looking at retirement paying for a race car can be challenging, but it ultimately comes down to how much time are you willing to spend making the coin to go do something you love. It doesn’t matter if it’s travel, fishing biking, camping everything is expensive so it might as well be racing. Before I retired I built a new engine for one of my projects and refreshed both of my race motors. I spent over twenty grand on the three over the the three years before I retired. We literally finished my last 440 the last month I worked and put it on the dyno a couple months after that. While the mopar is waiting on my grandson to turn 16 I’ve been working on my Ford project’s suspension brakes and new transmission and rear axle assembly replacement. Sure retirement means buying new parts takes more time but I’m still working on my cars and making plans for the grandson, I can have him running mid 11s with the parts I have and for the price of a converter mid 10s.
Sure it may take more time to put a motor together now that you’re retired but it’s not the end all.