Well the car i just got rid of that i had a long time my formula i paid 4K for it and invested about 15K in it http://i12.tinypic.com/44lwqro.jpg

my S10 in has about 30K in it http://i12.tinypic.com/2ivcp55.jpg

And my 85 Z28 im just getting started i paid 1,100 and buy the end of the will have another 1,000 in it. http://i11.tinypic.com/2drsakh.jpg

spent 1700 for the car put about 1600 in repairs so far

Just noticed this is another Zombie thread

Depends on how you looked at it, Over the years, $30k easily, many parts have been swapped over the years with other projects and such though,

so to add up how much has been spent on whats there now, probably closer to $15-20k

It adds up real quick.

to much and not enough

car $1300
money spent on 350 that was in it $700
Body (painted the car myself) $3000
5.3/4l60e swap $4500
6.0 swap $1200
Exhaust $300
Suspension $400
Audio $500
Tires $500
Countless hours $00

Total $12,400

I would tack another 2k on there and still feel like i have spent way more than that on the car.

I haven't even touched the interior, rearend, or done any mods to the engine or transmission.

But damn does that 6.0 pull like a ****.

87 Bird: Paid $1000 (and NOT happy about the way it was when I bought it for that price), probably (guesstimating here) around $4K dropped into it. Got about $600 back in parts and what was paid for it as scrap.
88 IROC: Paid $900. Put most of the parts that were going to go into the 87 into it. So, with the exception of the body parts, I'd guess around $7500. Needs more to go into it, but not more than a couple hundred before the usual state fees . Provided I don't find out that I need to replace something else that was perfectly good when removed from the other car .

1992 Camaro rs. stock engine
suspension complete
brakes complete
wheels and tires
engine mods
interior mods
bunch of miscellaneous.

purchase 3400.00
mods 13,500

16,900 total
beginning



now

Car- $1
It was my dad's back in the day, he parked it in the early 90's and drove it a little every few years or so. I fell in love with the thing before I was old enough to remember. I got it at the end of my senior year of HS a couple months before I turned 18. It's been 3 years last month, and two of those were daily driven. I've driven hundreds of cars at the tire shop I work at but there's nothing like a third gen... I still get that same feeling and that stupid smile I couldn't have smacked off of my face when I get a little crazy in it all these years after that first ride as a child.

Mods in sig + A/C conversion to 134a + ball joints + 2 sets of 15" tires + carb rebuild + starter + head light motor kit + headliner reupholstery + used SS wheels with decent tires. = about $3900

All done on my own coin working part time and going to school, most of the work done myself. I don't regret any of it, it's the first car and it'll be the last car I own.

The only thing that I do kind of regret is that after everything it's still automatic and it still probably couldn't break out of the 10's in the 1/8th...

...yet

Paid $500.00 for it and have about 7 years and $ 8,000.00 into it. Its my DD.

well, my car is not as nice as most of the cars on here, by far ... just got it a few months ago when it was to cold to work on, so i am just getting started on it

traded an 87 fiero 2.5 5 speed that i paid $350 for and got an 88 chevy stepside for it ... traded that for the 89 iroc ... only have about $150 more in it now ... but it needs a lot of work still

looking to keep it almost stock, for my son who is 2yo right now

I bought mine for $300 from my brother.

I spent
$42 new headlamps
$200 C5 corvette rims
$48 autocross numbers
$74 wonder bar
$240 wilwood calipers
$50 Imitation Momo steering wheel
$70 wheel adapters

That's $1024 and I don't have the tools to make caliper brackets so that could cost quite a few dollars for a shop to do. I still need a few more items and fixes so I can get it road worthy and race ready.

Wow, If I had to put a number on it, I'd probably have a nervous breakdown. Bought the car with no motor or trans from a junkyard 13 years ago for $1,000. Bought 3 donor cars over the years, about another 1k. At least another 8k in the past 3 years of the resto in progress (slow going, put cash into it when I have it) And I still have interior and wheels to go. Not counting tires maintainance and other misc things that are mandatory. Easily 10k and it hasn't been driven in 4 years. SOMEONE STOP ME!!!!

CAR: 6000 ( way to much!!) it was in good condition but i felt like i got conned haha
Cash spent: 2500 on engine rebuild
Cash about to spend: 2200 for a t56 swap!
but i know im going to drop alot more into this car

Picked my Iroc up for $2250 over three years ago from a used car dealership (guy traded it in on a Mustang so they just wanted it gone). Bought a box of fuses $20, spark plugs were about $20, new wires were around $40, new front tires were about $160 (need replacing again because they dryrotted bad! Only 8k on them too), new alternator free, jy radiator $30, new t-top and hatch weather stripping $300 (not installed yet), head unit $80, new speakers all around $150, and various other jy parts I have picked up over the years about $100 or so.
So I have about $3100 in this thing so far.

Car cost 500 bucks and have about a grand into it so far.

Car : 11000$
New engine : 3000$
New parts (rad/carb/brakes/tires etc...) : 2200$
New wheels : 2750$

Total (2010-2013) : 18950$


Damn ...

Lets see here.
Started with a 97 Chevy Caviler i bought for $350, drove that around for a year.
then traded that for a 97 F-250 light duty. $25 for great stuff foam for rusted out rockers, $25 for fiber hair, $50 for a gallon of primer and a gallon of flat black tractor paint. Drove that for 6 motnths. Then traded it even up in Febuary for the 1983 T/A 5 speed with a 350 swap. So far ive put in : $50 for Junkyard find chrome valve covers, chrome air cleaner, and hatch struts. $60 for exhaust from y-pipe back (my brother works in a auto shop) and $35 for a pawn shop radio. $75 for stock T/A wheels and $60 for 80% tread tires from the junk yard. Thats it so far. This summer paint job for $500 from good friend and body guy, and all new weather stripping this summer sometime too. So for a recap. Basically $450 for the car and $280 in parts so far. Not to bad so far lol. No engine mods planned cause its fast enough for me, and im only 25 lol

$1700 on car
$700 wheels and tires
$500 between the motor and tranny (in progress)
$225 audio
$100?? oil for the old motor
$40?? spark plugs ^^
$200+ small stuff (dash, taillights, etc)
$??? Fuel

Atleast $3500 so far. Needs paint and body done, as well as headliner and carpet.

Bought my '82 z for $4500 back in 1990,so far the biggest single expense was an'84 'vette engine i bought for $1200 in 1994-the rest,including several sets of tires and a windshield have been spread out over the last 23yrs car has been ultra reliable

wow... i wouldent even know where to start and dont think i want to!

Nice car man! That is beautiful.

Edit: So hung up on Ron's car, I forgot to price mine:

Z28: $2,500 (very clean, zero rust, 70,000 miles, still had original floor mats in it!)

Drivetrain: $520
Transmission: $425
Steering & Suspension: $365
Exhaust: $530
Engine parts and machine work: $4,775

More work I just did this winter that I haven't added to the above list:

Megashifter: $215
Hurst roll control: $85 (on sale) + $20 for lines and fittings
Speedometer drive/driven gears, aluminum gear housing: $105
Billet alum. pulleys: $85
Power steering box, pump and houses: $195
100 amp alternator: $90
Tires: $400

A bit over 10K at this point. I could stop now, but I feel like she deserves more!

2,400.00 for the car
1000.00 new 350
5,500.00 in the 383 motor build
1900.00 for the rear end and
South side lift kit
700.00 Nitrous kit
1200.00 th400
350.00 th400 driveshaft
1500.00 paint
300.00 hood
1500.00 tt2 rims and tires
600.00 1 3/4 long tube Headers
150.00 1 5/8 long tube headers
300.00 4200 stall
1000.00 Front end rebuild moroso springs Lakewood shocks
300.00 tv flip up radio
1500.00 Custom exhaust
300.00 jw bell housing
300.00 ratchet shifter
Rough Grand total of $20,800.00

And still about 10,000 away from its completion

This thread is in very poor taste. But to each his own I suppose.

Bought-$4000

Spent-$3800

First thirdgen - $14000 new off the dealership lot
2nd thirdgen - $2500 used invested another $30k + into it to make it what I wanted
3rd one - $6k to buy, another $20k in paint and parts to make it what the wife wanted.
4th one - about $10k total for a low mileage vert it will get a few grand worth of paint next year
5th one - $500 because I might want to build another one some day and the price was right.

I still have all of them but the first one.

I should have bought a z06....

Car 4800 back in 03.

10 years later, 4 different builds and some experimentation, $50,000 and counting

Most of us thirdgen owners have poor taste obviously.. We love the poor man's corvette.. Haha

Dirrybird, who started this thread in 2002, was probably 16 at the time. He is now into a C5 vette last I checked. I think back in 2002, he needed to see into the future of a gearhead. I'm sure by now he figured out that he'll be spending a lot of coin on these toys.


I dont keep track of what I have spent. I am on the 5th engine combo in my convertible. It went from stock to slightly modified, to nitrous'd, to a 355, then a 396, now an inline 6 junkyard engine with boost. It's been a good time cruising, racing, etc.

At least that's what several members of my family think about it. But, in their defense, for what I'm into these for and what I spend a year racing them, I could have a Lambo or Ferrari in the garage instead with a Vette for a daily driver. I just don't think it would be the same or quite as much fun though for some reason. I grew up with these things and now I have the disposable income to do all the terrible things to them that I wanted to do when I was young enough to buy the car new but too broke to actually do.

Fortunately, most of my neighbors are car guys too and they don't mind the loud cars, all night build parties, and the burnout marks down the center of the street

Car : 2300$
Suspension : 1200$
Paint / body : 3200$
Floors : 800$
4th Engine : 5000$
Wheels / tires : 1800$
Bushings + labor : 350$
Complete Exaust : 1100$
Others : 1500$
Rebuild LSD Diffenrential + frame : 1200$

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18450





Before :



After :

Get a can of plastidip and paint your headlight buckets black. Super easy and temporary if you dont like it. $10 + masking materials + 2 hours.

That car looks really awesome in a brutish streetfighter kind of way, the black buckets would really set it off.

You bet.. I will , but the car need to get out of the speedshop

1991 z28
bought -$500
bought parts car -$750
+$1600
sold 3 swap kits one out of Iroc one out of parts car bought a motor and trans for 200 sold that swap kit total of 1600 to the good.
sold colume +$50
sold t-tops +$50
sold tail lights +$50
bought computer, injectors,distributor, if i remember it was something like $250.
bought summit gallon of black paint and primer $230
bought door panels from pull a part $20.00
bought graphics kit $190.00
bought belt moulding $46.00.
Birthday present new head unit and speakers. $0.00
father bought a set of wheels for it $150.00
windshield install $100.00

total spent $2086
total recovered from the parts car. $1750.00

Total out lay $336.00
this doesn't include sandpaper and such or the Hr's put into it. restoring parts like turn signals and such.

then theres the Iroc . rough tally in head is over $20,000 thats with 3 transmissions 2 sets of headers and rebuilding the top half of the big block. total color change inside and out. new wheels and tires. 3 exhaust sytems, rebuilding the rear end, new head unit , new speakers, and sub box , new gauges, and gauge panel new fenders doors and chin spoiler. new goodmark steel hood and heck having the 930 holley rebuilt was 390 bucks. new brakes, new weather stripping for the t-tops new emblems.

I do not want to know anymore.
Car purchase was $1500 only (roller)
4 years later, countless man hours, and its turned into a love/hate thing. But I won't sell it anytime soon.
Prob over $20,000 I bet by now and it'll never be fully completed.
I shoulda bought a newer Vette as mines turned into a Vette with a camaro body basically.

let's see.. I told my mechanic "One of EVERYTHING" hahahahaha


91 Camaro Z28 T-tops with 350 engine swap
car = $2,600
full PPG paint job = $2750 (bright red) can I include all the speeding tickets on this line item?
replacement parts for car/paint $570
beginning mechanical stuff, shocks, struts, brakes, oil pressure valve, differential seals, trans fluid change lock actuators, headlight switch and tachometer.. only $1,650

total = $7270

that's just the beginning.. what the F did I get myself into?

of course the drivers side floor pan is rusted through.. I bet the whole bottom needs to be replaced.. AWESOME!!!!!! It's like watching the movie "The Money Pit" but hey, it's for a good cause.. it's not my car.. it's the wifes!!! Can't wait to hear her plans for the interior!!! NOT!!!!!!!!

20k and it's about to go up!

Beats a Monthly Car Payment.

Wow. I feel better.
Under the hood $5000.
Paint and Body Work $6000 in process.
Interior in process. So far it will immediately be $2250.
Tires $640
Miscellaneous ? several hundred
About $2000 to go yet but it can wait.
My friend told me I should get a 5th gen. No, not now, having too much fun with my 3rd Gen.

$11,000 for car brand new in September of 1984.
$1,500 for short block 350.
$800 for cylinder heads.
$1300 for transmission
$1200 for interior (carpet, door panels, plastic trim and upolstery)
$300 for paint
$3000 for suspension (tubular k-member, a-arms, rear control arms, panhard bar, torque arm, sway bars, shocks and struts, strut mounts)
$450 headers
$1500 misc (cam, carb, torque converter, etc.)

About $21,050 total.

6,000 for the car
17,000 for mods

but its a hobbie i enjoy

So far just the $4,200 it cost for the car. Just bought it 2 weeks ago and it goes into winter storage this weekend. Will be planning and buying parts throughout the winter. Still deciding what I want to do with the car.

nice! where do I get those seats? I really like them!

The guy who restored the car is in the upholstery business and he did them his-self.

So far where I'm at is $1,000 for the car. $807 in collecting parts and getting it running perfect again. The only other costs I see in the near future will be for painting the body. Then of course mods down the road. Which will add up fast I'm sure. I already have an 80 Camaro I'm already modding some more by adding LS1 rear disc brakes and PTFB front and rear suspension this winter. I've had that car 10 years and I'm still always doing something to it. Unfortunately the IROC has to sit in storage for the winter.

Easily over 40,000 probably closer to 50,000 once the turbo setup is running.

Lets see, $1150 for car not running, $1800 for engine rebuild, $1500 for tranny and rebuild, $12-1500 for suspension parts, tpi clutch/plate and misc parts, and still not running yet :/ Just got to get battery, fluids and tranny installed and should be good to go.

Car(no motor)= $900
Motor (rebuilt 2 times)=1400 easily
EBL and harness=$400
Tires=$600
Heads/roller rockers=$1000
Dyno Don Headers/ypipe=$500
FFI First Intake=$700
Springs=$150
Koni Yellows all around=$600
Subframe connectors=$250
Exhaust system=$400
Interior bits=$400+
Other stuff im forgetting=$500+
Oh yeah paint/body!=$700+
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$8,xxx+

All on from when I graduated high school in 2011 till now, all on my own dime working 2-3 jobs and all work(except subframe install and exhaust system install) done myself. Jeez I really hadn't added it up in a while...note to self never again!

Right after motor install


After paint/Christmas Last year

I paid $500 for mine.but I have about $12,000 in it now.its been great fun, and I would do it all again

I gave $500 for mine .so far I have $9,700 in receipts. about to drop another $2000

Ive got waaaaaayyy too much into it. Id sa at least 12k easy. Its been a fun ride at least and i learned to do all my own work on it with some help from friends and a 24 of MGD as well for every event