Tony!
After going through your thread I must admit that to me it is probably one of the best written posts on FABO!
You have done an extremly well done restoration on your car. One of the issues is that if you have the goal in you head, you know how you want's the car to turn out then you forget about the cost. Or plan it over a longer time.
I guess that you can restore a car two ways. For the love of your car or looking on your car as an investment.
You have done your restoration for the love of your car. Hats off!
After going through the cost of my restoration I very quickly found out that I'm doing the restoration for love to the car too!!! Money tends to fly away fast! And I mean really fast!
But after all, all hobbies does cost money. The car hobby tends to bring back some of it if we decide to sell. Other hobbies is just like throwing away money all the time!