Swiftster makes some really great points and thanks to him I remembered what it was to live for a car.

My 2nd car was a '76 Monte Carlo which was an ok car that I bought fairly cheap. It had a V8 that never got better than 12 MPG and the modding I did to it didn't help that figure any. The fuel, insurance and maintenance costs (and back then gas was 78 cents a gallon) on that car kept me broke constantly even though I worked a 8 hour a day job. No money to play with the honeys and that sucked.

About a year and a half after I bought the Monte I sold it to some other stupid kid who thought he got the deal of the century and I bought a new Isuzu pickup (awesome little trucks!) to get me around in until I got to a point in my life where I was better able to afford a "toy".

Now some years later I have my own house, my own garage, my own tools and a little money to play around with so now I'm starting another hotrod project.

Abe