Amen! I'm a Camaro nut, having owned 9 of them over the years. I restored a 1969 plain sport coupe, and that alone was $8500.00 after adding up all the receipts. You would be lucky to find a rusted out hulk needing virtually every panel replaced, for under $6k.....it's crazy the prices these cars/projects are going for. In hindsight, I probably would have been better off buying one that someone else started, or had mostly completed. But, I wanted to build one and here I am. I totally agree that it's not a task for the person without major resources (or the building to put it all together in for that matter)
I was all set to purchase a Shelby Cobra kit car, had put away most every piece I needed to build it (Factory Five replica) but when the wife and I sat down and added up the projected cost to build it the way I wanted (Conservatively priced)
It came out to $35K
well, you could have heard a pin drop, and then it was hell no.......the rest is history.....
Ben