Here is my situation. I have a 1983 camaro that me and my dad worked on for nearly 3 years. My dad passed a little over a year ago. Now that I have gotten it back up and running again I'm not sure what to do with it. It runs, but barely. We have put massive money into it and it still isn't exactly what you call road worthy. I contacted someone to have it completely restored, get rust off, new engine.. etc.. They said it would be nearly 10 months and would take between 1500-2000 hours at a rate of $70 an hour....$140,000 for a $2000 car. No thanks. I love the car to death, and don't wanna get rid of it. But for how it keeps falling apart no matter what we put on it, without a complete restore idk what to do..
Options

1.Scrounge up $10,000 (max) spend it on what i think can and needs to be fixed (subtract cost for new engine and tranny) and see where i come out at.

2.Sell it and go look for something a little nicer in the camaro world, IROC or something along those lines.

3.Sell it, and just keep the money til i think of something to do...lol

 

I would sell it and do something with the money that your father would have wanted to do himself or something he would have liked to of seen you do. Something that would make your dad happy...

 

Use it to teach yourself how to do body work.

 

Evotaggo,

My honest opinion is to sell it. It is not worth the hassle, it is a old car and the body style is nothing special. I do have simphaty with you on the sentimental family part of it but aside that the car is not really worth any significant value because of the type of car it is(not a real clasic collector american muscle car).

Carlos