Originally Posted by enzoducoing

If you're considering selling your stock '87 to get this monster, it tells me you're into the driving experience more than just the pride of ownership and to me that says a lot about what you consider a priority. Sure an original car will only tend to rise in value, but bottom line is that if you like driving hard, once you use a modified, buffed-up well set up car, you'll find a stock car kind of boring. To me the only thing much more valuable than anything on any market is time. The time I have left in my life to enjoy and play and grin and smile. That's why I'd rather invest in other things like real state, and have only the cars I enjoy to drive hard. Such being the case if it were up to me, I would simply negotiate the price and get the hot rod I've always dreamed about. Besides, hot rods give you much more than just a greater driving experience, they give you freedom. Freedom to be creative, freedom to experiment, freedom to not care too much and just enjoy. Because they liberate you from the heavy burden of becoming just the temporary depositary of an stock-original, numbers-matching, value-appreciating, garage queen. With a stock car you serve the car, with a hot rod the car serves you.
Just my thoughts.
Cheers
MD