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Me too, during a refresh one time, of my daily driver, it was during a gas spike, and was building an engine. My buddy asked "What are you building?". That's when I went from 400s to a 461. He looked at me like I was from the moon.

I've driven the LeMans as a daily driver from like 1993 to 2014. For the longest time, I averaged 30k-40k miles a year, and rebuilt the engine every 3-4 years. As soon as the old one came out, I would have it torn down, and planning the next build. No hurry, I had 3-4 years to finish it. Every time would do upgrades too, and the only thing in between was gas, tires, and oil, for the most part.

Only reason I stopped driving it as a daily driver was because I started a job where I can take the train. And the heck if I was going to leave my car at the station all day. Especially when guys were going through the parking lot while everyone was at work, hacking out cats from SUVs, and taking them to the metal recyclers for the platinum.

I would do transmissions too, had a spare TH400, would freshen that, and it would go in the same time the engine would. The last one ended up in the 442. (But that will soon be swapped for a 4L80E)

I pay $25 a year for property tax, and like $185 every 6 mo for insurance. Beat that with any new car. And people argue with me that I spend too much money on cars. Ha! I spend way less than most. Have a friend with a newer SRT Charger. Think it's a 2012 or 13. Maintenance is eating him up. If I had what he drops monthly on that thing, and the other money that goes into that car, I could have built 2 or 3 of what I have now.

Had A '67 Coronet convertible once, built that for my wife (at that time), nothing special, Legendary did the interior, rust taken care of & had it painted, 318 car, aluminum intake, 4bbl, 904, 323 8 3/4 rear. Got 28+ miles to the gallon, was a sweet car. I had about $7k in it total. Deal.

Friend gave me a car once, if I paid for towing. It was a 76 AMC Spirit, straight six. Was like $80 by the time I got it out of the yard from being towed. Battery, brakes, rebuilt the carb, tires, and a good cleaning. That thing would fry a tire, and do like 120. Drive that thing for 6 years, and like 140k miles.

Even 4 doors IMO, I would like to do a wagon even.

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