Likely story,....give it back.
Nope I caught it too. Definitely one the better tng storylines.I guess I am the only other person who watched Next Generation. I think it was Locutus though. Glad you kept the car. Good luck.
As did I,...the most important spin off of of that story line was that it introduced Seven of Nine.Nope I caught it too. Definitely one the better tng storylines.
There really isn't any predicament.
The wife argued w/ me this morning
I can't say that there won't be some other project in my future,
but right now the trade off for the "really cool car" in favor over the house that needs work on a dozen unfinished projects, becomes a pretty easy choice.
I hate trying to sell a damn car. It's such a pain in the ass.
Easy solution. Get rid of the wife. Lol
Oh C'mon! Did I really say all of that shi t? How many threads did you have to cut and paste to put that random collage of nonsense together?
There really isn't any predicament. The house isn't falling down or anything like that. It's just been 12 years since we moved in here, and there are too many things that I have let go long enough. The floors suck, Squirrels have moved into my attic (from lack of soffits over a new addition) The front porch needs completing, blah, blah, blah. I'm just at that point.
Nail on the head. Like a few others here, despite the hardship involved w/ the build, the thrill comes from the kill so to speak. The wife argued w/ me this morning on that very point. I can't say that there won't be some other project in my future, but right now the trade off for the "really cool car" in favor over the house that needs work on a dozen unfinished projects, becomes a pretty easy choice.
Mechum is a gold standard. They take a 7% commission in addition to a 250.00 entrance fee (plus the costs involved getting it there)
I'm just concerned that it doesn't measure up to that standard. The next several shows are wrong for several reasons:
The next one is too soon, the one after that is a private collection, after that is a Corvette venue. The Des Moines show is 3rd week of July, It'd be the first chance to even hope for.
I hate trying to sell a damn car. It's such a pain in the ass.
You didn't mention whether or not your 30-40k estimates are labor inclusive, or all based on cost of hardware alone.
Even at $30.00 per hour, if I had to pay some body shop to do the body work on my car, it'd be 30k w/o one piece of hardware. I don't know of any bodyshop even doing custom bodywork for 30.00 per hour, do you? ( or ANY bodywork for $30.00 per hour for that matter)
I realize that the end result of that bodywork isn't for everybody,.....but it doesn't take a trained eye to know that there is a bazillion hours in the labor to get it there.
The parts,.....now there is a different story. We all try and forget the "investment" we've put into these cars to get them to the perfect stage, ( and for the sake of my marraige I try to forget,.....conveniently) but if I remember correctly.......OH hell let's just look shall we?
Car orig purchase.........$1000.00
TMI interior................. $550.00
65 Door panels............. $ 300.00
65 door handles ........... $ 100.00
ACC carpet................. $120.00
Interior dye, glue, fabric $ 150.00
Audio system $750.00
A/C system.....................$ 1100.00
B&M ripper.........................$200.00
Autometer gauges............ $850.00
Roll bar, harnesses............. $250.00
Floor mats.............................$80.00
87 Sport seats................... $350.00
Total cockpit.....................$5800.00
Engine, trans used ............ $2500.00
Afterburner headers..............$350.00
Edelbrock intake....................$400.00
MSD ign.................................$400.00
Jegs Coil packs.......................$200.00
Summit 600 CFM carb..........$250.00
Patriot heads and cams.........$2000.00
Valve covers............................$ 200.00
Jegs radiator, fan, shroud......$450.00
Centerforce clutch..................$350.00
Driveshaft shortening.............$100.00
8.8 rebuild: gears, axles, clutches
bearings, ...................................$450.00
Full 2.25" exhaust w/ 4 muffs$ 300.00
Total steer manual rack w/
Bumpsteer, steering shaft $400.00
Total drivetrain.................. $8150.00
Holley fuel pump....................$ 220.00
Misc lines, fittings....................$200.00
Custom Tank materials...........$100.00
Total Fuel system.....................$550.00
Cobra brake upgrade.........
New spindles, hubs....................$250.00
New front rotors, calipers, pads$350.00
New rear brakes from NRC $550.00
Wilwood master cylinder $200.00
misc lines, prop valve $100.00
Total brakes......................... $1400.00
Centerline wheels.....................$1250.00
Nitto tires..................................$ 500.00
Total wheels/tires $1750.00
Strange single adj alum coilovers
w/ 175lb springs pr.........................$ 480.00
UPR coilover kit, Monroe struts
150 lb front springs........................$440.00
UPR CC plates...............................$120.00
Steeda Upper/LCA bushings .........$150.00
Total suspension.......................... $1190.00
Misc body
68 sheetmetal, lights, gas cap,
hood scoop, ornaments, stripes
LED Seq T/S kit.... $1250.00
Sheetmetal, bodyshop supplies $ 750.00
Paint, primer, clear coat...........$ 650.00
Total misc body..........................$2650.00
Total of parts.............................$21,090.00
This doesn't take into consideration the goofy assed homemade K member, subframe connectors, crossmember, or the fact that I payed that painter through traded out labor,....most of these "guesses" are low, and I'm sure I've forgotten some stuff,...
But I certainly have just as much in my car as your Dart block based/turbo build cars you cited.
Not that it matters anyway,....I'm not selling it anymore anyway. I'm keeping it for the rest of the year at least.
Star Trek voyagernow I need to fire up netflix and watch some star trek. thanks a lot guys!!!
Take this for what it's worth
Dont kno what ya got sometimes till you let go of it.
Or maybe it should read:
And then run across pics of it and start regretting.you don't appreciate something till you let it go;..... if it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never meant to be.
LOL you built a car like this and you owe money to the IRS your Priorities are f'ed up. Your not some 23yr old that doesn't know any better.
My advise is read your history and do the opposite next time
thats a heavy burden to carry with the irs involved. I understand your decisionWhat tha,.......Love Story???? You couldn't come up w/ better advice than to plagerize a line from that Marshmallow?
Seriously, you and I are one of the same. I always build some cool car only to sacrifice it to the need to eliminate the perceived crisis at hand. It was that way w/ the last big Turbo car that I built, and the one before that for that matter. It just seems that w/ each project, the crisis at the time is bigger, and more urgent than the last.
I have an "arrangement" with the man. I've been living w/ the payment on this IRS debt for two years now. It's DOWN to 9500.00,..but on april 17, 2010....that bill read $20,000.00.
Now I know on one hand someone will look at that and say... "see you've managed to whittle the original debt down to less than half, you're doing it."......I'd say to them I'll bet you'd grab your chest on the current balance,....I know I'd be reading your name in the obits from the first one.
LOL you built a car like this and you owe money to the IRS your Priorities are f'ed up. Your not some 23yr old that doesn't know any better.
My advise is read your history and do the opposite next time
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