Don, you know your motivations best, but just some thoughts on what you're debating with yourself. Often people will build a "once in a lifetime" high quality car. They pamper and show the car for the first year or so in the more highly competitive arenae. Then..............they learn to embrace road rash and just enjoy the heck out of it. Having once owned a car that I avoided driving because I "didn't want to lower it's value" I can appreciate where your head is. It sucks. In my case it was a low volume, low mileage "collectible". I ended up selling it, but in retrospect, when I did drive it I enjoyed the heck out of it as it was a drivers car. Since then no matter how nice I'll finish a car, my mindset is, drive it. It's all attitude and expectation..................you control those.