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If you had $10,000 to spend..........
on a project car, what would you buy? Another Porsche? Some other sports car? An antique American car? Hot rod? Cobra kit car (used of course)?
Since I finished building the 3.3SS engine for my SC, I have been moping around the house too much (according to my wife). She told me to take $10 grand and see what I could buy! A difficult offer to turn down or pass up! So what do you think? |
You could spend a little of it on a camera and take some pics of Zeus for us.
And tell us a bit about how it's going. |
Within family: 914
Out of family: Opel GT |
I'm gonna toss out a tail dragger...Corvair Corsa, 4x1bbl or turbo. :)
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First of all let me congratulate you on having such a loving and understanding wife. Not every husband will experience "Hey, darling, why don't you grab ten grand and buy yourself a nice car project, you look a bit down!" :)
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FJ60 Land Cruiser. I would say an FJ40, but $10k only buys a beat-up driver and doesn't leave much left over. An FJ60 would be cool and a nice complement to a nice SC.
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If I had $10k laying around, I would build a AWD DSM. But I think that's a generational thing.
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10k? ... 914 project! SmileWavy
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Beater BMW 2002. Put a turbo on it and do some suspension work and go drive it.
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The biggest 1951 to 1965 Chrysler boat I could get.
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Looking at wranglers now in similar price range. We live in a small town and would get lots of non-highway use from it.
Bastard 914-6 could maybe be done. Spec Miata (trailer, spares, etc would be add'l) Not sure of price range but would also check out model A or similar aged car too. You def. should cruise bring a trailer a few times before making a decision as well. |
Early 70's Ford Bronco.
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I have a project I'm getting ready to sell.
All you need is an engine, trans, paint and some TLC. 77 rust free Targa $8500 http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1399985499.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1399985531.jpg |
$10K...
I would get myself into a late 50's chevy pick-up. Been cruising the interwebz lately for a crusty, ugly, driver version. Can be easily had for under $5k. I have a buddy that used to build 355ci small block chebies for Modified Race Cars, has one with a 4-spd and a 12-bolt (makes 480hp) wants 3k for the driveline. Came out of his old 71 c10. I would leave truck as is, crusty, and SLAM it to the ground with deep dish painted steel wheels (drab olive green or root beer) with white walls and call it a day. I've thought about it once or twice ;) |
'49-51 shoebox Ford. Flatty with a three on the tree.
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$2K gift for wife
$8K Austin Healey Bug-Eye Sprite |
C4 Corvette?
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356...
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What's the budget to spend on the project once you have it? $10K including costs to fix up?
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