Have you ever added up what your project car has cost ?
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I've been working out how much I've spent so far on a 22 year old Sierra 5 door hatch and it's frightening - nearly £7000 ![](https://passionford.com/forum/images/smilies/shocked.gif)
To do a decent job on finishing it I need to spend at least another £4000
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To do a decent job on finishing it I need to spend at least another £4000
It's a hobby I guess
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Umm well i guess i had to buy the car, then money got slow... and i have brought some things... Maybe £4000 with the car and thats way over! It only sounds good cos ive had it like 4 months now.
by that logic its costing me £1000 a month.
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It's scary how much it adds up to, I remember doing rough bills on my first Zetec turbo Fiesta XR2 and nudging the £10k mark ![Surprised](https://passionford.com/forum/images/smilies/bigcry.gif)
What do you mean persoanlly? Has someone else put money in?
Crying shame about the car
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i put up a list on, i think, interford many moons ago listing all the mods i'd done to it prior to it blowing up and, without the last bit of money (i'm still spending money on it and it's not turned a wheel in anger for about 7 years
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still needs mapping and it would have been sorted, but now it also needs paint, rust issues need sorting out, still needs mapping and the brakes are shot and the rest is looking a bit worse for wear too ![Sad](https://passionford.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)
i put up a list on, i think, interford many moons ago listing all the mods i'd done to it prior to it blowing up and, without the last bit of money (i'm still spending money on it and it's not turned a wheel in anger for about 7 years
) it was past the £30k mark ![](https://passionford.com/forum/images/smilies/shocked.gif)
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i put up a list on, i think, interford many moons ago listing all the mods i'd done to it prior to it blowing up and, without the last bit of money (i'm still spending money on it and it's not turned a wheel in anger for about 7 years
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25k+ over ten years.
But done everything right 1st time and didn't cut corners which. Could have easily been done.
Things like.....
Harvey Engine, Bernie gearbox, Tommy Field turbo, AP brakes etc all 1st time of asking.
Could have been a lot lot more if I hadn't have listen to advice of people in the know (Mike R, Hadland, Sheedy etc)
But done everything right 1st time and didn't cut corners which. Could have easily been done.
Things like.....
Harvey Engine, Bernie gearbox, Tommy Field turbo, AP brakes etc all 1st time of asking.
Could have been a lot lot more if I hadn't have listen to advice of people in the know (Mike R, Hadland, Sheedy etc)
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It was at topboss for about 4 years, it's been sat in my garden for the past 2 years because I've lost the keys for it ![Surprised](https://passionford.com/forum/images/smilies/bigcry.gif)
Probably cheaper to buy another car and swap the bits over now than to plough yet more money into it, and with performance cars that will hit 60 in under 6 seconds and will top 155 easily all day every day being virtually a few grand with zero reliability issues, that's the way forward now me thinks
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Probably cheaper to buy another car and swap the bits over now than to plough yet more money into it, and with performance cars that will hit 60 in under 6 seconds and will top 155 easily all day every day being virtually a few grand with zero reliability issues, that's the way forward now me thinks
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Ive spent a bit on mine and no doubt will spend more. Its our hobby at the end of the day. People spend thousands of pounds on push bikes. People spend loads on a weekend going on the piss. People spend a fortune on fags a year.
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If I saved the money I put into my 3dr (purchasing, painting, mods, etc) over the last couple years id be able to buy this
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Beacuase i get bored and sell all my project cars, ive started recently to be quite shrewd when doing them, and have broke even with the last few, and i actually stand to make money on the sierra if it ever goes. In the past ive spent thousands thou
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i have added up on a few cars ive owned and its scary! the price has gone up with each car ive owned, god knows how much my FRS is gonna cost in the end lol.
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11.5k on my old grp4 mk2 escort (plus 2k purchase price)
7.5k on my mrs old fiesta rs1800 (plus 7k puchase price)
5k on my old mk4 rs turbo cabby (plus 1.5k purchase price)
and 5k so far on my ST220 (plus 11.5k purchase price)
wish i'd never added that up, now i'm seriously depressed
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7.5k on my mrs old fiesta rs1800 (plus 7k puchase price)
5k on my old mk4 rs turbo cabby (plus 1.5k purchase price)
and 5k so far on my ST220 (plus 11.5k purchase price)
wish i'd never added that up, now i'm seriously depressed
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prob about 18k on my last saph,i broke that too cheap and made about £10500 back but it was almost like new,the saph im doing now is a keeper so im spending the money on the best parts now rather than buying something now then upgrading later,spent between £500 and £1500 every week for the past couple of months on it and need to spend another 3k to get it rolling (ap brakes,tyres,fuel system etc),after that some carbon goodies and a respray then a big bhp engine,so prob another 18k to go.better get some o.t in
.like i said this 1 is a keeper so if i go to town on it now then ill not want to replace it or do anything more to it as it will have everything and be as mint as i can make it.its a long way off just now though!
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It's a scary process adding it all up, but look at it the other way as well, if we had ploughed £10-15,000+ into a brand new (any make) car a few years back what would it be worth now?
So with a lot of the motors we are building there is an investment factor built in.
Well, thats how I'm justifying it
So with a lot of the motors we are building there is an investment factor built in.
Well, thats how I'm justifying it
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my last ford was a ford sierra saphire...
it was a REPLICA cossie with a 24v Cosworth V6 from the granada
tallyed up the costs over 3 years when i sold her (traded her in @ 1500quid!) and the total...
THIRTY THOUSAND POUNDS
biggest waste of fucking money EVER
it was a REPLICA cossie with a 24v Cosworth V6 from the granada
tallyed up the costs over 3 years when i sold her (traded her in @ 1500quid!) and the total...
THIRTY THOUSAND POUNDS
biggest waste of fucking money EVER
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