have you ever seen a $100,000 Duece

Couple of Observations.

1. This hobby ain't cheap. 100K into a car, not too hard to do. 100K doesn't go as far as you'd think, especially if you live in Southern California or other high cost states. 10K for paint, 5K for interior, 8K for a fairly mild motor. 25K in a Gen II Hemi is not unusual. Must say I'd be hard pressed to spend 25K on a SBC.

2. People lie. I did it all myself except the paint. Really? You stitched the interior? Okay so I didn't do the interior. You set up that Ford 9"? Well no, I bought it assembled from Curry. You welded in the subframe connectors? Um, no I sent it to a chassis shop for that. You built the transmission? Um no, ordered it from TCI. You get the idea, even a guy trying to be truthful is probably full of crap.

3. NO ONE CALLS A CHEVY II a DEUCE. Jesus, Chevy freaks do you have to steal EVERYTHING.

I pride myself on doing a lot of work myself, but there are limits to my time, tools, and abilities. For every guy that can paint his own car, is a guy who can't build his own motor and vice a versa.

I created a dream build list for my Dart and came up with 40K in parts, if I then paid someone to do ALL the work, I'd easy be in the 100K region, and my dream Dart had essentially a completely stock appearance except for the wheels and tires. So a lot of custom body and paint work can really up the price. So if this guy didn't do any work, I'd say 100K is easy. If he did a lot fo the assembly and mechanical work, 60K might be a reasonable number.

Where does the truth lie? Who knows, but as a betting man. I'd put the number north of 60K. Which is a lot of money for a 60s era economy car.

Regards,

Joe Dokes