I need your honest opinion

Hi SlantedMark4, I believe you are struggling with your emotional attachment to your first classic car. You do not want to see it as a failure purchase, yet you may well be seeing it as a mistake. Well you are not the first, and not the last, to take on a project and realize the money pit is getting too deep. It's not an easy decision to stop and move in a different direction but it might be a smart one in this case because it may be years and a lot of money later when you finally get to a state of satisfaction.