The real costs of a slick ride

I guess everyone's opinion of "slick" is different but mine are slick enough for me. Lol.

The Duster I paid $1,500 for and drove it home. I put a tune up on it and daily drove it for over a year to work everyday.

$12 2 cans freon.
$300 two new rear quarter panels
$40 case of primer
$40 sanding blocks and paper
$300 Keystone rims from swapmeet
$100 carpet
$150 Shifter
$50 Manual valve body kit
$50 for a transmission rebuild kit which I had to learn to do myself last week.
$60 alignment.

Free-- My labor and the 8 1/4 suregrip with 4.10's out of my Dart before we sold it.
I did all the body work including learning how to weld and installed my own quarters.
I guess the total would be around $2,600.

My wife's 66 Dart GT (factory ac) we bought with 49,000 original miles on it for $1000 and it needs carb work or I might have drove it home too.
$300 swap meet Cragers
$200 new tires
$50 carb rebuild kit
$150 new gas tank and sender from ebag

Total is around $1700 so far, but I will be purchasing alot of stuff in the future when we tub it, get the stuff I need to put the 340 in it (I traded for the engine) and put a cage in, the 8 3/4 I traded for also. I need to learn how to set up my own 8 3/4 too because if I have to pay someone else to do this stuff, I wouldn't be able to afford to fix up my cars. It is moving slow enough now.

We had a total for out 75 Dart that ran 12.9 with a mild 360. I don't have a break down readily avail for that one but we only had about $5,000 in her including the price of the car.
None these cars have received paint yet but I have painted 2 trucks before in my home garage and I am sure I will paint the 66 Dart, 74 Duster, and the recently acquired and not included 66 Barracuda for the cost of materials.

Gives me something to do on the nights I have off at home when the wife is sleeping besides talking to you guys and learning how to do all this stuff.:-D