The real costs of a slick ride

Interesting topic. To make one of these early A's "perfect" would cost a fortune, maybe at least ten times what the car is worth after it is completely restored. It would be easy to ruin the fun of these cars by overspending on them.

The probelm with the A-bodies is that they are NOT worth very much when you go to sell one but it costs almost as much to re-do as a B- or E-body. So you should really like the car and don't ever expect to get even half of your "investment" back.

I think that you, and anyone else re-doing a car, should understand what it'll take to make it what they want. Then like someone else said at least double it; double the time, the money and the effort.