People who love money own and drive classic cars

I live in FL and bought my Dart exactly a year ago, slant six. I purchased it for $3000 from the original owner at (76k miles) It is in really good shape (no rust) but needed a lot of updating. The car was completely original when I bought it.

I’ve put $3000 into the car and so far did what’s listed below.

I do daily drive it and spent on the car what I’ll never get out of it, but I really enjoy it and think I’m just about finished spending and updating. At this point moving forward I’m hoping it’s mostly routine maintenance moving forward. I did do all the work myself except the AC service, pressing bushings and aligning the car)

So all in I’m at $6000 and not sure a four door will sell for that if I want to recoup my money, but it’s reliable transportation a don’t have a monthly payment. Most of all, I love and enjoy my car.

-full tune up myself (belts, timing, valves, plugs, oil) ($100)
-AC service to R134 (shop) ($300)
- Front and rear suspension myself (except the upper and lower bushings and aligning the car, luckily the previous owner sold it to me with new tires) ($600)
-front brakes calipers and rotors (factory disk) and change fluid, I left the rear drums alone ($200)
-rebuilt transmission (I took it out and dropped it off at a shop and picked it up and installed myself) and u joints ($400)
-Sent the power steering box for an overhaul (most expense-$500 for the rebuild of factory unit)
-Grease all wheel bearings ($50)
-Recored the factory radiator (dropped it at a repair shop) and redid the entire cooling system including water pump ($400)
- Slant six Dan lights upgrade all four corners and relays ($400)
-blue tooth speaker with built in battery to charge iPhone (Santa brought it-no more AM radio/single speaker)

I do need a new headliner and want to redo all the fuel lines and possibly the fuel tank, but these items are not really a necessity now.