[DaxtonBrown]

“We’ll all be like Cuba, driving 50 year old cards held together with duct tape and chicken wire because you can’t get a decent new car.”

My cars are a 57 Bel Air, a 67 Camaro and a 49 Chevy pickup. While there is some duct tape and chicken wire involved, I figure my cost to upgrade all three to tip top shape is $12,000. All three. Pimped out.

Now compare that to what it would cost for me to buy three comparable EVs. Plus, my cars will be just as driveable in 10,20, 100 years as they are now while those EVs will only be good for dumpster fires and need replacement. And my old beaters will be pimped to the max over time.

My family doesn’t appreciate what I’m doing. But my grandkids will.

[Tommy Revolts]

Right on. My cars are a 2017 Mustang V6 and a 1984 Jeep CJ7.
I plan on driving those for a long time.
An EV is not in my future.

[pepsi_junkie]

The old '50s and '60s cars are fantastic, iconic for a reason. however in Cuba they cant get parts so they sort of make their own as I understand it. They run ... barely ... but look great in propaganda about what an island paradise it is.

Eventually if the government figures out that we are all keeping old cars going rather than buying this crummy first generation of EVs (they will get better, these suck) then they'll come for the parts market. They will not be denied.

[HKMk23]

At that dollar figure you’re talking about doing every last bit of the work yourself right down to the sand prep and paint. If you got the skills, more power to you. My 63 Impala pretty much needs a frame off restoration; a rotisserie job. It rolls, and it runs, but it really needs to be gone all the way through end to end, and $12,000 won’t touch that.