Hello guys! Well... The only thing i wanted to add in this buying Vs restoring thing is that it´s been said that restore and get to know every corner of your loved car (let´s face it, we do that and we have classic cars not for the car itself... i don´t think anyone restore a car to go to the mall) is something that grow with the process of restoration. Many of uf even do most of the hork ourselves which helps into that matter... I think that is when it cames subjective in the matter of almost feeling towards the owning a classic per se.
As many of you know i´m from Uruguay and that´s an issue that detemine a los of things... I´m 31 years old, i work 10 hours a day in an office, i´m a proffesional and i make 1000 dollars a month, and my salary is medium good... I´m my country american dollars only became important when you´re gonna buy something outside so... I had to learn to love the restorartion art itself because i can´t go and buy a new hood or a NOS fender because every part for me, plus shipping and taxes costs me double than the original price, besides my earnings are very very low in an international level...
If restoring was not "my thing" i probably couldn´t have any classic car, and actually, i have 4... So, bottom line is that there are a lot of things that make us what we are and the important thing is to enjoy whatever your profile tells you to do...
To link this post to the original thread topic, for me, it doesn´t matter is you buy it finished or if you restore. I´m a restorter because i love to do it and even if i´m not Miguel Angel, i know how to do it and for me, that my hobbie, that´s what entertain me the most... The important thing and i think that was the actual propose of this thread is that you have to know what are you buying and what kind of work you are about to compromise on doing to the car... There are cheap cars because the look bad and there are cheap cars because they ARE bad... If you are planning on restore a car you have to look with knowledge and twice because some projects turn impossible to acomplish for a guy who´s not ready to do that type of job... it end having another car forgotten in a backyard and another guy who once wanted to drive a classic but he ended up hated the headaches, the years of waiting and bottom line, the bad deal he did... It happens a lot and it´s a simple case of "not the right car for the owner"
So, buy what you know you can handle and what you know it makes you happy
