There are plenty of us around, it's hard to get motivated these days, too much other stuff going on.
More than a decade ago I could have purchased a partly restored 1974 Astin Martin V8 Vantage Series III, dirt cheap an unfinished project was being offered up for $25K. But I did not take up the offer, I'd baulked at the cost of sourcing the original or replica parts, I worked out it would triple the purchase price just to finish the job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin_V8
I should have, recently examples of finished projects sell for upwards of $250K.
I haven't done much with cars in recent years, I was never much into the grunt work of panel beating or painting I left that to the professionals, my gig was building engines, occasionally dabbling in transmissions and diffs. The last engine I built was a 308 with a custom HEI ignition system, QuadraJet, Headers/Extractors with a 2" single exhaust system, all hooked up to a Turbo 400 Automatic and a very low ratio diff. All crammed in a HZ Premier. On idle the whole house would rumble like an earthquake, you could hardly get it off the line without stalling, but it would run along the freeway or around Calder all day long like a Nascar. There is nothing better in automotive history than the rumble of a serious V8, I suppose that is why they fake that sound in modern supercars.
More than a decade ago I could have purchased a partly restored 1974 Astin Martin V8 Vantage Series III, dirt cheap an unfinished project was being offered up for $25K. But I did not take up the offer, I'd baulked at the cost of sourcing the original or replica parts, I worked out it would triple the purchase price just to finish the job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin_V8
I should have, recently examples of finished projects sell for upwards of $250K.
I haven't done much with cars in recent years, I was never much into the grunt work of panel beating or painting I left that to the professionals, my gig was building engines, occasionally dabbling in transmissions and diffs. The last engine I built was a 308 with a custom HEI ignition system, QuadraJet, Headers/Extractors with a 2" single exhaust system, all hooked up to a Turbo 400 Automatic and a very low ratio diff. All crammed in a HZ Premier. On idle the whole house would rumble like an earthquake, you could hardly get it off the line without stalling, but it would run along the freeway or around Calder all day long like a Nascar. There is nothing better in automotive history than the rumble of a serious V8, I suppose that is why they fake that sound in modern supercars.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"