[DonC]

By all means get your wife involved or at least interested if at all possible. Makes things so much easier and peaceful down the road when you "really need" that special tool, part or accessory or you spend six days and nights in the garage "doing stuff to the car".
My wife's repeated comment is how friendly everyone is in the Cobra Community. She doesn't make a lot of the local hops with me but there are several excursions during the year that she comes along on. I do a fair number of runs during the season that are a ways away from the northwest. Lake Tahoe, and Colorado most notably. For these I trailer the car out and she flies over and I pick her up at the airport. Keeps her from being bored to tears for one to three days while I'm head down pushing through, even for me, the boring parts of getting there.
Best of luck on your search for a car. When everything is finally factored in it's one he!! of an experience.
DonC