- 1. Build New Costs vs. Purchasing Existing New Car (score: 1)
- Author: EISANDIEGO@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:50:56 EDT
- Over the past years, there have been a number of people who have come onboard to FOT who were planning on building racecars. I wonder how much progress they have actually made on constructing the rac
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- 2. Re: Build New Costs vs. Purchasing Existing New Car (score: 1)
- Author: Colaizzi <rcolaizzi@icondayton.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:31:35 -0400
- Basically I agree with Cary. I have built three race cars: 1950 MGTD #50, a 1957 Alfa Giullietta #55 and my current TR2/Devin nearing completion. They all cost more than I could buy or sell them for.
- /html/fot/2001-10/msg00130.html (9,642 bytes)
- 3. Re: Build New Costs vs. Purchasing Existing New Car (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Rose" <lytspeed@wcnet.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:45:29 -0400
- I think that you bring up a very good point, Cary, and,while I do agree, to an extent, I simply do not have $18,000 to spend on an existing race car. As for myself, I have been building and rebuildin
- /html/fot/2001-10/msg00131.html (11,765 bytes)
- 4. Build New Costs vs. Purchasing Existing New Car (score: 1)
- Author: N197TR4@cs.com
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:36:17 EDT
- I bought a tub and frame that were finished...nearly everything else was in baskets and on skids. This was $2500 and then I sold off the new parts that were not needed to net it at about $2000. All w
- /html/fot/2001-10/msg00133.html (9,960 bytes)
- 5. Re: Build New Costs vs. Purchasing Existing New Car (score: 1)
- Author: Henry Frye <thefryes@iconn.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 19:08:36 -0400
- Mike, et al. To put this in context... I bought a race car that was... well... It was a race car. It did need some sorting out, (sic) but all the foundation was there. I bought the car and a truckloa
- /html/fot/2001-10/msg00145.html (9,023 bytes)
- 6. Re: Build New Costs vs. Purchasing Existing New Car (score: 1)
- Author: WEmery7451@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:55:08 EDT
- << My first observation is that good used vintage racecars sell for about 50 to 75% of what it costs to build an entirely new competitive, reliable, and safe (emphasize competitive, reliable, and saf
- /html/fot/2001-10/msg00162.html (8,378 bytes)
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