OK, you have spent years on your build, the car is part of you.......
You win a fair lump on lottery........
What happens to the car, I made the mistake of selling mine a few years back but later got the chance to buy it back.
What you going to do ? Think the question relates to locost builds more than kit builds nothing wrong with kit builds I have completed two btw but I
think there is and will always be more of me in the isonblade than there could ever be in a kit build...........
So, sell and replace with big boys toys or buy the toys but keep the locost ?
Me, the locost stays put.
Sell, after 3 and a half years of blood sweat and tears ? I'd sooner sell one of the kids
I'd kep my Indy for as long as it takes Caterham to deliver my R500...
Its hard to sell, i tried selling my Tiger although i never got any offers i decided to keep it. One good thing about kit cars is theres always ways to improve. (Thanks Zil)
If you win a fair or even small lump on the lottery I would look to buy a bigger garage then it all becomes a moot point.
Fleet of half a dozen cars including your self build. Problem solved.
Seriously though, I would try to keep what I had built. It will always mean more and be worth more to you than anyone else. I should know, I've
spent years building a pile of scrap in the garage. I am very attached to it even though I can't even roll/push it out the garage yet.
Hmm every time I get p1ssed of with it I think of breaking it up and selling it on. I walk in the garage and just cant.
They are like women, you cant live with and you cant live without 
Thats my take on it any way.
Keep it quit the job build another with nice shiny bits
Caber
Yup, no question at all. I'd be adding another garage to my mansion before I'd sell the Indy!
(I would however make a few "minor" detail changes to it, busa, full cage, new brakes, new .......................)
Mike
congratulations on the win, keep the car to remind you what you acheived when you had F**k All.
Now get to F**k out off this 3rd world country, 2 bedroomed apartment in sharm el sheik £35000, International cart circuit just outside sharm.
Enjoy life your a long time dead
Tony
My car might go through more evolution - new chassis, but powder coated, send engine away and get it built properly, might invest in a sequential box,
but it'd deffo sat in my garage.
I'd be phoning Ultima and order a roofless and roofed GTR, and probably a new Espace, but Initiale spec. Might even restore a Jensen Interceptor,
and fit it with a modern diesel
ATB
Simon
I have a dutton that i did not build, but with all the mods i have made i so would NOT sell it, just means i would be able to buy all the nice
expensive bits for it.
Probably would build somthing else as well !!!
One of the things about being rich is you never have to sell anything, and you've always got room to store all your stuff.
Paul McCartney still has just about every instrument and amplifier he has ever owned, how many other musicians could say that?
John
No way would I ever sell! 
As said, lottery win means being able to buy a bigger place (garage) for more toys.......
Can't even understand why the question would need to be asked!
Fozzie
I wish i'd still got every car and bike i'd ever owned (well maybe apart from the panda and mz.) With loadsa money i'd love to make the locost better than a cateringvan in everyway. Would build a crossflow up from Burton's parts ie. mainly alloy and non-Ford. That would waste about five grand for a start.
I couldn't bear to sell mine - just like everyone else has said here.
I must admit that I was surprised when Jon sold the Isonblade - I had ridden in that beast! He must have been heartbroken when it got bent after it
was sold. I'm glad it went back home!
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Not much of mine to sell. Would get bigger garage, more tools and continue with the Roadster build but would put an RPi 4.6 ltr V8 in it.
With a big win I'd just need more cars.
I'd have a nice chalet in the alps for summer and winter. That needs both a good 4x4 and something good around the bends (so thats a kit). A
place in Majorca for spring and autumn with something to drive. Of course I'd still have somewhere here so that needs more cars including
something to criuse between all three places.
The money just gives you the opertunity to do what you enjoy...more. Without having to fix other peoples cars I'd enjoy playing with my own more.
I wouldn't be camping at the shows and mixing with the riff-raff though! ;-)
adrian
No point in selling if your numbers have come up, with the pathetic amount of cash most of our cars are worth, you may as well keep and enjoy.
Al.
Mines been on the road nearly 3 years now and every time I open the garage I have too pinch myself, "did we really build that ourselves",
and every time I drive it I have a grin from ear to ear most of the time.
I will definitely not be getting rid of my pride and joy, it will eventually be passed on to my son who helped with the build.
I would have a complete strip down, get the best Haybusa turbo money can buy.
Have made a custom 4x4 drive system.
Every thing that can be made from carbon fibre including wheels made.
Then go on a diet.
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Originally posted by zilspeed
......But he was still more excited about the car his team was building which will never ever come close to the Gallardo in any way........
When I had mine at the workshop, I was in one weekend spraying the chassis ready for the final build, when in walked the
owner of the works estate where we had a unit. ......( a rich mans 7...IMHO..of the historic variety ) 
Ive put my baby up for sale only because i have always said my kids will come first. However it really makes me think when my 6 year old begs me not
to sell it and even my 3 year old asks when im going to take her to nursery next in it.
As said already they are more than just a car. Anyway my point is, if i need the cash the car will go, end of, before my family would suffer. However
if money was no object then the car would never be sold. Developed yes, but not sold.
funny that this comes up- i find myslef in a vaguely similar position..
I started building my car with my dad, as a way to spend a bit of time together
His health was deteriorating, so his 'hands on' input was limited, but we discussed what to do, and i did it
we were going to have it finsihed by xmas, and that was three years ago ;-)
Unfortuately, my dad died in July, and the car wasnt finsihed (but nearly, honest )
He wasnt a rich man, but he left me some cash. In theory, i could buy something nice, maybe an Elise, sell the locost.
But i cant. The car needs to be finished.
So its currently in MK, having my inheritance spent on finally getting it near completion.
This car will NEVER be sold.