I checked out of VMF yesterday AM for a quick overnight run to Highlands, NC. Just got back. I feel I should say something here, especially since I was the one who goosed this thread with a couple of posts back on page two. First off, those who focus primarily on the money investment/resale issue simply need come to grips with the fact that in some cases that is a non-issue. Doesn't matter. Secondly, even if it did matter that would not preclude someone from seeing a profit on a conversion, either through very shrewd decision making or building something quite exceptional in quality and performance improvements. Although these instances may well be rare, they can and do occur. Thirdly, I myself have absolutely no respect for those who undertake a sale and do not disclose, right up front, and preferably in the ad title, that what they are marketing is a conversion. The words "Shyster" and "Scum" leap right out of me (tar and feathers too). I feel the same about those who sell certain titles with thinly disguised (wink, wink) carefully worded ads.
When my car is done and on the road (almost certainly within the next eight months or so), z over there, whom I have come to respect, will see it through his lens as a stitched together monster. Others will see it as a poor/bad investment and not understand at all. Some will call it a "fake". Well. Frankenstein's Monster was a much more powerful thing as a sum of its parts than anywhere they came from (so in a way zray is right), money is by no means a be all/end all issue, and as for the title and vin being for the donor downtrodden base 6 cylinder coupe it once was, it retains many structural and parts elements of same. It'll be a real fastback alright, not a fake, a conversion. What's more, as I'm driving down the road in it I promise you, I will not care what denigrating thoughts some may have of what I have done since 2008, with my sweat, my tools, my skills, my unborrowed money, the help of this here forum's members, and my own judgment and mind.
From what I understand of this little hobby of ours I may be too busy nodding at folks giving it a :thumbsup:.