Hold me and tell me it's going to be alright.
Hold me and tell me it's going to be alright.
That depends entirely upon what you paid for it. The set of wheels and tires i want for mine costs about 1/3 of what I paid for my car.
But as one enabler to another, you'll be fine, man.
it's gonna be alright, but I'm not holding you....
Never, EVER add up the receipts!
Duke wrote: That depends entirely upon what you paid for it. The set of wheels and tires i want for mine costs about 1/3 of what I paid for my car. But as one enabler to another, you'll be fine, man.
$650.
I've since pulled the head, replaced water pump, alternator, timing belt, pulled AC and PS, and just ordered all MOOG parts to depower/rebuild the rack properly.
You are just fine,I once spent $10k on a motor that went into a $500 car...
unevolved wrote: $650. I've since pulled the head, replaced water pump, alternator, timing belt, pulled AC and PS, and just ordered all MOOG parts to depower/rebuild the rack properly.
Total of about $1400 in that? You're way ahead of the ballgame, even given the "urban camouflage" paint scheme.
I surpassed that on my $500 Miata when I bought the pair of Sparco seats for $550 to replace the torn up and nasty stock seats.
My $800 CRX Si shell got a $1,600 (and a set of Hoosier A6's) roll cage.
I have had two cars reach that point within the first day.
My CRX needed a seat and some sticker tires that came off an Acura at the salvage yard. $5 per tire and $60 something for the seat. Put me over the $75 purchase price. By the way, how ticked would you be to put brand new tires on a car and then wreck it? These tires still had flakes of the sticker falling off!
The second car was the Lumina LTZ that got an oil change that exceeded the $28 I bought it for. Recently sold that car for $2K and a promised brake job.
Ojala wrote: You are just fine,I once spent $10k on a motor that went into a $500 car...
Mine went into a $100 car 
The purchase price of the car is immaterial. It's the end result that matters.
Yeah, this one's got a long way to go. This is why I like this forum, you guys can understand the logic behind taking something most people would turn into a parts car and make it into a fun toy again.
What's the problem again? None, that's what. Have fun - who cares what the car originally cost?
I bought an expensive but nice '90 Miata - like $3400 - and doubled it pretty quickly with one call to FM.
My wife doesn't understand that it's cheaper to fix the car that's in the driveway, especially when my Jeep needs $100 or $200 thrown at it a month. I'm whittling it down to nothing, but she knows we spend $600 for the Jeep, and I shouldn't ever spend money to get it in shape again.
I also have a $350 Accord that I'm going to Challenge, so it will also have more than the purchase price put into it.
Spending more on a car than I bought it for is kinda my thing.
I doubled my purchase price of my celica in wheels, tires, and brake pads when i first bought it.
Happens to me all the time! Just bought a pasture fresh Escort Wagon and quickly went from the original $250 to the current $562.66. But it is now a good road car so I'm good.
What I was rankled at was that the DMV charged $129 for title and taxes. $700 "presumed value". Sounds like tax fraud to me!!
If spending the money on your car worries you, would you (or wife/significant other) prefer spending it on beer, tattoos and lap dances?
Bruce
I did that with my 944, and it still didn't run afterwards. I think you're doing ok!
Recall that the reason you paid such a low price for the car was so you would have this money to spend on parts. RIGHT?
Just my exhaust cost more than the purchase price of my Supra. The wheels doubled that again. Fun stuff!
I stopped keeping that spreadsheet about the time I realized how much Island resort time I could buy for what I had in ONE Miata. Never mind tow vehicle, trailer, toys etc.
Miraculously, I've got an SO that doesn't care (so long as she gets to drive it) that I spend so much time/money on a crappy car like this one. She's actually jealous, as she used to have a Miata.
I spent double the price on the car just on the hard top.
egnorant wrote: . What I was rankled at was that the DMV charged $129 for title and taxes. $700 "presumed value". Sounds like tax fraud to me!!
Had that happen with my saab.. until I explained to the lady that is had 225,000 miles on, rusty fenders, and a ripped up interior. She called her manager over and I offered to show him the car (sitting outside on a paper dealer's tag) and he made the "presumed value" go away.
mad_machine wrote:egnorant wrote: . What I was rankled at was that the DMV charged $129 for title and taxes. $700 "presumed value". Sounds like tax fraud to me!!Had that happen with my saab.. until I explained to the lady that is had 225,000 miles on, rusty fenders, and a ripped up interior. She called her manager over and I offered to show him the car (sitting outside on a paper dealer's tag) and he made the "presumed value" go away.
I paid 1350 for the Biturbo. I paid almost $400 in taxes for presumed value.
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