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Originally Posted by RDM
OP, what do you value? Why do you own the car?
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If you view the car as a fun hobby and a learning opportunity, dive in. We're with you.
If you consider the work to be a hassle, hire it out. We're with you then, too, though you don't need us much.
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This is exactly why I'm hung up on the decision to dive in full bore. I really like wrenching on it and learning and improving my skills, but I would always rather just be behind the wheel (at speed). In an ideal world, the car would run perfectly and I could wrench 5 hours a month to maintain it and fix little things here and there.
The thought of this taking up to a year is a little scary as I'd like to get as many road trips in before kids and family life arrive in a couple years. Coincidentally, my current job and home situation (no kids, good amount of free time and flexibility) are also great reasons to tackle a big project like this now.
So... that's all to say that I need to figure out what I really want out of this. Thanks for listening to the ruminations.
To touch back on the "sell this and buy another" option: The idea would be to sell this one for say $20k and buy another, holistically better example for less than [20+rebuild cost] - so say $30-35k. I think that is possible, but I would probably have to get right around 20 for the current car and it isn't a slam dunk by any means. The market could also continue to rise and price me out of that idea making sense while I'm in limbo.
In some good news, looks like my neighbor is cool with me using his extra garage space for the price of "one pizza", which I think is officially the best deal in the history of SF garage space.