Same here. 24 year break and managed to turn a non-collectible or even desirable model into a college tuition. So stupid, but yet wonderful at the same time. [wife doesn’t feel the same] ha
The best part is even with that said, the hole will keep going. None of us will ever be “done”.
Somewhere in the middle of the “rebuild”….. if you can call it that, I stopped keeping track of the money. Before that I was keeping detailed records of everything. Now I just leave the cost out. Lol
Somewhere in the middle of the “rebuild”….. if you can call it that, I stopped keeping track of the money. Before that I was keeping detailed records of everything. Now I just leave the cost out. Lol
In the beginning I started a folder for copies of all receipts. That turned into a binder. Then a bigger binder. That practice stoped a while ago. I don’t want to know anymore. Haha
My thought process on keeping all the documentation and receipts was "man if I sell this car I need to have something to the buyer knows what all has been done to it" and then over the years I realized I'm not selling this car. Now I just keep the receipts that have warranty (at this point those are the lifetime alternator, starter, etc.). I went through both folders about two years ago and reduced them down quite a bit just tossing the crap that was no longer even on the cars.
Hell I had some people give me crap that my Coupe is a VIN'd four cylinder car and not a real 5.0...you can go yourself with that. Only people saying that crap are the ones that either got outran or what I like to think is that they liked my car better than theirs. The Thunderbird was a 2 barrel CFI 302 AOD car and now its a carb'd 351W with a TKO and I never heard anything out of anyone except the occasional "why the F did you build that car?". The Mustang crowd is a finicky bunch myself included.