go on Copart.com and get a crashed Gixxer is ... $2 - 5000
If we were to build a Rusto-mod (rat rod made from modern materials) we'd wanna get creative with a motor, rat rods are all about the motor. Was most favoring a BMW M5 motor from a crashed car .... $10K so right there FB is half the price on one component
Rusto-mod has a lot more surface area so a lot more CF materials.
If we did a Chevelle it would be Resto-Mod or Street fighter style. again motor more expensive, body work much more expensive. there's parts on those for luxuries that aren't in an FB radios, heaters, AC, speakers and the kick panels and bumpers and everything. There's just more of everything and its more money because of that. We wouldn't be half assing it. If we went production car route it would be a show winner. much more time and money.
FB ... it needs to look decent, but some waves in the bodywork aren't the end of the world. so it's a good place to build better fairing skills. The engineering is where the mechanical grip and weight and speed is at. Dad's a farm boy, if I don't give him drawings he'll try and make a brake box out of 2x1 Flat bar. It'll test and grow our relationship which is my ultimate goal in the end. I wanna make memories with the old man.
my budget for FB is in the $50K neighborhood. My budget for a Chevelle $200K, so thats the difference 10 yrs vs 3.5-5yrs. however, alberta's economy is in the ****ters and Notley doesn't give a crap, she want's environmentalism over jobs so ... the doomsdayer in me says maybe perhaps this is a no go. But I've finally got the right rules after looking in 6 wrong places and I can at least put ideas to the page that can be dusted off later if I can't find job security when I come back from school