over here in nz you can pick up a gt-r skyline with nearly 1000hp for $45,000 NZD ($24,000 USD)
show me another car for 24 grand that can do 10 second quarters and go around corners and stop as good or better than a new vette.
while still able to carry four people and their luggage, and be every day liveable on the street...
but if we're talking what we'd give a left nut for, i wouldn't get a skyline, i'd build a full tube chassis cuda with 800hp alloy hemi, 6 speed transaxle, and full custom suspension and brakes, with carbon fiber front end.
basically the johnson g-force cuda without the more extreme body mods...