[Bob Parmenter]

Roscoe's dollar amount is very, very typical...............for a well done home built, as a basic amount. It wouldn't take much in "extras" to go even higher.

Have known lots of guys who sit down with brochures, flyers, and parts catalogs and a large legal tablet who think they have figured out every possible expense and end up somewhere between $25k to $28K. If they really do build the car and do it WELL they end up in Roscoe-land. And it takes a whole lot longer to get there than they figured. It also takes more space, and tools, and skill, and............... Side note, FFR guys doing the donor thing come in somewhere around $18k-22k, which still grows to some higher number, again depending on the finish quality level.

One notion that could come from this thread so far is that every guy who starts a home build enjoys it and successfully completes the car. Remember, these guys are special people. They have a higher level of determination than the average bear, and perhaps a higher skill level. The odds are higher that the car won't get done. The lower the quality of the initial kit, the less likely it is to be finished because it will grind down the initial enthusiasm faster that a 24 grit sanding disc. And it usually goes hand in hand, the dreamer's lower price is almost always based on the lowest price buy in kit.