How old are you?

[DarkBuddha]

First, I totally understand where the OP is coming from... it's downright perplexing how folks can build such awesome cars sometimes. But I'm gonna tell you, age probably has very little to do with it specifically. I'm 38 and I'm no better off than any 27 year old with a new house and young kids and mediocre income. In fact, right now I have no income to speak of. But even before, when I had a decent job, my Mustang project was slow going... so slow that it's now 10 years since we started and it's still not done. And I'm not talking about some crazy high end super killer pro-touring build either... just an old school, very budget oriented restomod (no Cobra brakes, no rack and pinion, no trick a arms, no fancy name brand "gotta haves"). In fact, because the Mustang was such slow going, I got another car that I could make bits of progress on while driving it (my XR4TI), and it's been a super budget car too.

The fact is that building any car to any level is a product of basically 3 things... time, money, and skill. The more that you have of any of those gives you more ability to the get a car built quicker (and better, and to a higher level), but if you don't have a bunch of any of them, the car just ends up finished on a lower level. But none of that matters, the point is to build it to whatever level you can and be happy to have it. There's always more/faster/better, but something is better than nothing.