How much does resale factor in to how you build your ride?!?

Exactly.

 

Another thought - if you build with resale in mind aren't you building to suit the 'Court of Public Opinion'? You can please some of the people some of the time......

 

i build the cars for me....but they are all for sale.... usually minus the " mag wheels & tires" but with a suitable replacement...

 

NONE

I build what I like, how I want it
Because I rarely sell my cars.
Had my 32 roadster for 30 years ...
and plan on keeping the 32 3W ... and let the wife
sell both the roadster and the 3W after I am dead.

I did sell my 40 Ford standard coupe.( to buy the 32 3W )
A Hamber bought the 40 ... and paid what it was worth.
He has owned it for 4 years now and it has been a
good car ... so he got what he paid for.
I did not cut any corners on it when I had it either.
He paid for and got a quality car.
I bought what I wanted and did it my way.

 

none at all. i don't sell em' to make money, i sell em' to make room! very rarely do you make money , let alone break even, on cars you spend countless amounts of hours on, unless your doing it as a business and not a labor of love.

 

I always wanted a 55 chevy and it took me over 35 years to get it. 3 years of a labor of love to get it where it is and now building a much stronger engine for it. I never planned on getting rid of it for anything but now I'm faced with the possibility of trading it for 36 ford project that's already chopped and on a frame that rolls. So much for never letting it go. Hard to put a price on something that you built and really like and didn't plan on selling

 

The first few it doesn't matter at all.

Then oneday, you look around and realize there's a shit-ton of rides on your dream list. And a bunch of em don't require losing your ass if sold. A small change to the project selection process, and you still do whatever the heck you want with the car and build your dream ride, but make sure the initial direction is a $mart one. This is all assuming you have good taste in cars & modifications. If ya don't you're just fucked.

 

Same here ,but I ended up selling alot of my rides to fund the next dream ,unfortionatly barely breaking even , if I'm lucky.But its still Fun.

 

None , no consideration ,if something is too much cash -change plans or find another source. I never buy build and flip.

 

44 years ago my daddy told me that I would never get my $100 back I paid for my 40 Ford Coupe. Now I realize he was right. I could prove him wrong but I would have to lie about what I have invested in 3 rebuilds over the years. If someone were to ask me what my car is worth, I would say nothing because it only has worth if it is for sale. Someday I will pass it down to my son and what he does with it is up to him. Stay tuned, he may have a coupe for sale some day.

 

I never put a thought into selling my car.
Friends see me spend money on it and ask what do you think you could sell it for once your done, and when I tell them they say thats less than you have into it and I say yea so what.
They always come back with a dumb look on there face and say then why are you doing it and I have to walk away because they would not understand any answer I had for them.

 

"if you build with resale in mind aren't you building to suit the 'Court of Public Opinion'? You can please some of the people some of the time......"
Every car owner building a car is courting public opinion in a positive way.Not too many would build a car hoping to hear 'your car sucks' every time it was out.
One last thought.If your not thinking about resale then I think a major part of the build is being missed.
What happens if there is a family emergency or a financial blow so great the car has to go.A half assed build or a wild custom poorly done will not be of much help then.
Car selling sites are full of cars that are being sold for way less then the owners had in them because of either the choice of vehicle or the quality of work.A well built popular vehicle will bring better money even if not finished .
I factor in the "what if " as part of the both the buying and building process.I aint rich so the money has to be spent wisely.

 

Couldn't care less about resale factor. I do them for me and me only.

 

"What happens if there is a family emergency or a financial blow so great the car has to go.........I factor in the "what if " as part of the both the buying and building process.I aint rich so the money has to be spent wisely."

Exactly.... I don't build my cars to sell but you can't ignore resale completely. I've spent way too much on my nailhead rebuild for my '49 Ford coupe. I would never have done that if I built it to sell. However, having said that some guys would pay more and shoeboxe coupes are popular if I ever HAD to sell it. If I'd spent the money on a 4dr, I would have lost 1/2 of the money I've put in so far already.

I've seen a couple of guys do a ground up restoration on a rusty '52-54 Ford 4dr automatic. Good luck getting $10K for one and it had better be mint.

 

I don't think you can spend your life worrying about what might happen because you don't know. If you are spending so much money on building a car that if something happens you have no way of supporting your family and are relying on selling your project to get you buy then you probably shouldn't be building a car.

I also don't see the point of buying a car because it is popular so if I have to get rid of it it will be easier to sell. I am not in this to make money or even break even I am in it as a hobby and hobbies cost money. If I was doing it as an investment that would be different but I and I would guess most on this board are not.

 

Zero.

 

None...and it shows when I go to sell 'em.

 

I sink my money into my 4 DOOR. That is all you need to hear. Every car I've built, selling was never a thought. Hell, I'd be rich if I always got it back. This is the way I walk- it's not profitable, but it makes me happy.

 

It dosen't Zero,Nada

 

None, I build it to my liking. Although I'm very fortunate that after finishing and driving for say a year I don't get emotionally attached to the car like many others do. To me it's just a cool car with alot of character.....time to move on to another.

-Kirk

 

Quite a bit.

I don't play with cars for a living - but having a hobby that pays for itself isn't bad either.

 

I consider it a lot. So far the only car I feel I will keep for quite a while is the one in my avatar. I love so many cars, that if I can buy one, keep it for a few months and enjoy it, then sell it for a profit, I can funnel that money into the next one. And it makes it WAY easier to convince my wife on a purchase if she knows, or at least feels like, I will earn a profit. I simply do not have enough funds to build a car just like I want, when I know I will wind up selling it to buy another. I have a 68 C-10 I recently rescued. I put some painted steelies and center caps on it, dropped it, fixed all the mechanicals (or most) and fully plan on selling it this month or at least by June. After that, I have my eyes on two different 49-52 Chevy coupes and I hope I can get one of them pried loose. I wish I could keep them all, but then I would spend 30 years with only one car, and the whole time spent wishing I had ______ (fill in the blank).

 

It doesn't.

 

none of mine ever get close to done, so i dont have to worry!!!!

 

Maybe a good question would be - how much sentiment is factored into your car/build? Probably not a lot of us will get every $$ out of 'em (I know I won't!!) unless we bought it cheap waaay back when, or if we're building it just to flip it & make a few bucks. But how much $$$ do we put in pride of ownership & bombin' around town on a warm summer evening, getting thumbs up and "I wish I had one like it" looks from folks? Do we factor THAT into resale? Some things you just can't put a price tag on.

 

I would have to say that for me, if I was to think about resale I would probably lose interest in my car real fast. I bought my '55 Buick because it was priced right and I wanted a car I could sharpen my teeth on.... so far I haven't done any customizing but had I the money, time and know how I would probably have that car looking so sick that the next owner would have to really like my taste in customs.

My best 2 cents do with it as you wish, keep your receipts and sell her as your fondest memory to date. Don't let some slack jaw tell you how you should enjoy your ride.

 

Don't plan on ever selling my car, but sometimes I'll lie to myself about how certain parts are "adding value to the car" when I try to justify in my head how much money I'm spending on it...

 

It doesn't, unless it's being slapped together to re-sell.

 

Not one F'N Bit !! As others have said I build it for ME ! I turned down a serious cash offer a year ago on my T that was close to twice the cash I have in it. Was not done playing with it so no sale!

 

I absolutely think about it. To me it's not about the car when it's finished. To me it's more about the build. To me hot rodding is more about spending time in the garage and escaping from reality for a few hours here and there. As soon as the car is done being built I really don't have a lot of interest in it anymore. I'm already looking for the next project.

Ed