i would guess that you are doing this car for a paying customer.looks to me like by the time you replace all that metal he coulda bought 3 restored cars.
Kind of depends on what your idea of "restored" is.
I would say he could maybe buy 2 horribly bubba'd up Joe dirt chit boxes (maybe).
Or possibly one correctly restored car built to someone else's taste. Of course then he doesn't know for sure if its all good under the nice paint either. But with this car, he knows what the insides of frame rails, torque boxes, rockers etc look like. Because he's got pictures of all that stuff. He's able to watch the metalwork, check on the car daily if he likes.
He knows exactly what he's got when its done.
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Maybe he could have bought one or 2 like this that are already done.
