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Old 07-25-2015, 03:53 AM
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Happy for you that you sold it. Sorry you lost so much in only 12 months. That said - what's next for you?
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Old 07-25-2015, 08:09 AM
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I'll miss your ride! Hope the new owner will take care of it as well as you have...
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Old 07-25-2015, 12:42 PM
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Great chronicling of your ownership. And eventual sales experience. $8k is quite a bit in only a year... but that's probably still a lot less than you would spend yearly in car payments on a $40000 vehicle. So if you look at it that way... you came out ahead.

Luckily I have not had to invest that much money into mine... though do have some maintenance to attend to. I've had mine about the same amount of time as you and have spent ~$2500 (on non-elective things) and put 12,000 miles on her. If you include upgrades and such... then we've spent closer to $4000ish.

At any rate, good luck on your next project whatever you decide to go with. I suggest E30... they ARE enthusiast vehicles and are commanding high prices for well-sorted OEM or OEM+ examples.
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Old 07-25-2015, 07:24 PM
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Thanks guys - it was a blast - I think my expenses were equal measures of going overboard on replacing parts and equal measures of just buying an example that was at the end of its first life cycle and due for a lot of maintenance.

Anyway - next project is sorted. It's a very clean base and perfect candidate for an engine swap ;-)




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Old 07-25-2015, 09:40 PM
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Looks very nice... Curious - what plant is she gonna have mate?
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<snip> what plant is she gonna have mate?
please say jet turbine, please say jet turbine
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Old 07-25-2015, 10:52 PM
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LS-jet-turbine 😉

Eventually - just working through the maintenace, suspensions and wheels at the moment. Hmmm......this is sounding familiar; history repeats itself!


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