Your car looks great and your bringing all the 64-65 guy out of the woodwork. Looking forward to the interior work.
Here's my car finished. $42,000 to complete and forced to sell to buy a house in November. Hurt to let it go. Worse of all...I could only get $14,500. Everything was new front to back.
Nice looking car, damn shame you had to sell, especially for that money. But, priorities in life call i reckon. I have done all the work on mine myself and have done my best to keep costs down just for the reason if i ever have to part with it i wont lose my shirt. Mine is not as nice as yours but it is a nice driver. This yr it gets new wheels/tires and i am having the tranny rebuilt because i dont like how it shifts and i may even tackle that myself just to try it. Next yr the interior and possibly the engine will get rebuilt. Even then i will do as much myself as possible to keep costs down and just to say i did it. Nothing i havent done before, just never for myself. This spring i am starting on a 71 Nova i bought too, doing an LS swap with that. Again, as cheap as possible.
I did most of it myself or as much as possible. Body work forget it. Paint and body came out to $13,000 and interior total was $7,000. I tried doing the interior seats myself but those hog clip crap sucked so off to the interior guy. lol. A lot of headaches listening to other people like taking out the Buick 350 that was in it and putting in the Chevy 454. That in itself sucked with exhaust fitment and trying to find an oil pan that would fit with the crossmember. That motor alone with fitment changes was nearly $8,000. It ad's up fast. Then I sent my rear tail lights out to a chrome shop and they were shut down by the state and all parts were siezed. took almost 8 months to get mine back and they were stripped at that point and the center emblem was missing. I had to find two new lights and center emblem in the meantime for a total of $1,700 and put those on so I could drive it. The bumpers I did a swap with a California company Bumper Boys when they come around for a swap meet and they are only around for a weekend until the next year. I got them home and unwrapped them and the cores I gave them were nearly perfect just needed rechroming. They gave me back rotted brackets with holes and the bumpers were slightly (1/2") twisted and didn't line up very well. They just cleaned them up and chromed over instead of fixing them. Those were $700 each and I had to wait a year to get another set or pay shipping of $500 each to get earlier. Transmission I bought off a guy along with that motor and the trans wasn't shifting properly. Had it taken apart and they said someone installed the gaskets reversed and tried to make their own shift kit. The engine he sold me turned out to have a cracked head and ended up hydro-locking the motor. But supossedly these were all fresh rebuilt by a machine shop. Thos fixes alone set me back another $3,800. So consitsantly with this car I was getting screwed. My wife called it the OMEN and wanted me to sell it when I was around $20,000 into it. I'm glad I finished it but wish I could of atleast drove it for a season or to a few shows before selling. As soon as it was done it was sold. Never got to take it out completed. WOW! What a rant. lol. Woooosssaaaahhhhhhh
