Replacement value = what I spent
Ozsum2 said:
$35,000???
It was easy. Way too easy, in fact. Just do everything you could ever want to do, all at once within one month of buying your new car and then ship to Euroland, the home of 52% income tax brackets, 20% sales tax, and $5 a gallon gas.
$13.500 for the car
$6850 for the Global West Stage 5 package
$700 for the tires
$620 pistons
$305 rods
$300 new 4 bbl carb
$200 electric fan
$250 alum radiator
$170 trans cooler
$1300 cyl heads
$350 headers
$400 new stainless steel exhaust
$200 new mufflers
hot tank the block, degrease, regrind crankshaft, bore cyls to .060 over, etc
$1300 TCP Rack and pinion
$400 for 4 halogen lights
new cam, new timing belt, new water pump, new oil pump, etc
maybe another thousand on odds and ends (TCP pedal covers, Grant steering wheel, shoulder belts, etc)
about $3 large in labor to install all the above all at once
$1200 shipping to Europe
duty on the car
costs to transport the car internally
costs to prepare the car for govt inspection (this just sucked. It turns out that the rear brake lines were not up to Euro spec. I had to send to the US for new
brake hoses. I spent $98 on new hoses and another $120 in DHL, duty, and VAT. the shipping costs exceded the cost of the part. This was also true for the Lokar parking brake cable. Shipping was in excess of 100% the cost of the part)
cost of govt inspection
My receipts tell me that if the car were stolen or destroyed, I would need $35k to get one exactly like it.