If you had $10,000 to spend..........

[fred cook]

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?

[Bill Douglas]

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.

[VFR750]

Within family: 914

Out of family: Opel GT

[Jim Richards]

I'm gonna toss out a tail dragger...Corvair Corsa, 4x1bbl or turbo.

[livi]

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!"

[IROC]

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.

[BReif61]

If I had $10k laying around, I would build a AWD DSM. But I think that's a generational thing.

[Nickshu]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

I'm gonna toss out a tail dragger...Corvair Corsa, 4x1bbl or turbo.

Could, but will need some work. Good ones are around $15-25K. Fortunately parts are pretty cheap. I'll have $40K in mine when the resto is done...

[sc_rufctr]

10k? ... 914 project!

[slakjaw]

Beater BMW 2002. Put a turbo on it and do some suspension work and go drive it.

[wdfifteen]

The biggest 1951 to 1965 Chrysler boat I could get.

[berettafan]

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.

[VINMAN]

Early 70's Ford Bronco.




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[Henry Schmidt]

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

[911SauCy]

$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

[herr_oberst]

'49-51 shoebox Ford. Flatty with a three on the tree.

[jyl]

$2K gift for wife

$8K Austin Healey Bug-Eye Sprite

[HardDrive]

C4 Corvette?

[stealthn]

356...

[Steve Carlton]

What's the budget to spend on the project once you have it? $10K including costs to fix up?