Jon Ison
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| posted on 22/11/08 at 07:43 PM |
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Hypothetical dilemma ?
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.
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UncleFista
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| posted on 22/11/08 at 07:45 PM |
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Sell, after 3 and a half years of blood sweat and tears ? I'd sooner sell one of the kids 
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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StevieB
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| posted on 22/11/08 at 07:48 PM |
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I'd kep my Indy for as long as it takes Caterham to deliver my R500...
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dave1888
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| posted on 22/11/08 at 07:49 PM |
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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)
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RichieW
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| posted on 22/11/08 at 07:52 PM |
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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.
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big_wasa
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| posted on 22/11/08 at 07:53 PM |
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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.
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caber
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| posted on 22/11/08 at 07:53 PM |
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Keep it quit the job build another with nice shiny bits
Caber
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Guinness
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| posted on 22/11/08 at 07:55 PM |
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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
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mad-butcher
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| posted on 22/11/08 at 07:58 PM |
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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
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Simon
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| posted on 22/11/08 at 08:03 PM |
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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
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yellow melos
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| posted on 22/11/08 at 08:04 PM |
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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 !!!
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mr henderson
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| posted on 22/11/08 at 08:21 PM |
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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
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Fozzie
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| posted on 22/11/08 at 09:12 PM |
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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
'Racing is Life!...anything before or after is just waiting'....Steve McQueen
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skodaman
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| posted on 22/11/08 at 11:14 PM |
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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.
Skodaman
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 23/11/08 at 09:45 AM |
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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!
[Edited on 23/11/08 by David Jenkins]
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Shadowcaster
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| posted on 23/11/08 at 10:44 AM |
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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.
Cheers Rich
The Roadster Blog http://richshaynesroadster.blogspot.com/
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)
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adithorp
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| posted on 23/11/08 at 11:23 AM |
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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
"A witty saying proves nothing" Voltaire
http://jpsc.org.uk/forum/
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Wadders
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| posted on 23/11/08 at 11:26 AM |
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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.
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wicket
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| posted on 23/11/08 at 11:28 AM |
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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.
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rf900rush
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| posted on 23/11/08 at 12:22 PM |
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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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Fozzie
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| posted on 23/11/08 at 12:55 PM |
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quote:
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........
Zil, I can relate to that! 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.
He owns many Historics, and races them around the world.....so no, not short of a few bob himself!
He had seen me at various stages building it up for the first time, with I think some amusement.. 'old school gent'....
When he saw what I was doing, he said, 'Wow that looks as though it will be great fun....'
So I, tongue in cheek, said, 'when its SVA'd I would take you out for a spin in it'......
He came into the workshop quite regularly after that, to see the final fit progress.....
Alas, t'other half kicked me out of the workshop, and I had to finish it off in the garage at home.......and rebuild the engine in the lounge of
course......
Next thing I hear is that he had bought himself a Bugatti T35......... ......( a rich mans 7...IMHO..of the historic variety )
When asked by CKC which would be my lottery win car, I looked in amazement.....I already have it, sitting in the garage.....he really wanted an answer
so I said the Fozzmobile ...... which I already have....
.. he put 'Locost' in the mag......
pressed for another, I said, Speed 8.... for 'wet days'.....
Get rid of it because of a lottery win?......never, no way!
Fozzie
[Edited on 25-11-08 by Fozzie]
'Racing is Life!...anything before or after is just waiting'....Steve McQueen
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DarrenW
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| posted on 25/11/08 at 02:50 PM |
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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.
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Jumpy Guy
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| posted on 25/11/08 at 03:35 PM |
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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.
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