Funding your project car

[quagmire]

I now have an office main job, but I still do as much sidework as possible.  Mostly cars and light trucks, but I also fix construction equipment and pretty much anything else with an engine and/or electronics or computers.  Pinpoint diagnosing and repairing automotive control modules and other electronics devices has been paying off pretty big lately for me.  Basically I fix anything technology related. 

[tdub2112]

My dad got in a fender bender in the Cuda (actually still has neck problems from it) and so we got a good pay out for damages and medical stuff. He also got a good bonus this last year.

So we are set on our one project.

[darkhawk]

Selling stuff locally or grabbing OT whenever possible plus side jos for the cash for parts.  For labour items I usually work trades in helping someone with their project for help on my cuda.

[wagesofsin]

My dad got in a fender bender in the Cuda (actually still has neck problems from it) and so we got a good pay out for damages and medical stuff. He also got a good bonus this last year.

So we are set on our one project.

hope your pop is ok.

[tb3cuda]

I buy/flip mopars when I can.  Also the craigslist thing works good for flipping just about anything. 

[Super Blue 72]

I pester my wife and "help" her choose things for me at b-day/Father's Day/Christmas....  makes it easier for her!  No shopping necessary! 

[The Cuda Guy]

Credit Cards.

Don

[dutch]

Credit Cards.

Don

    

[Street_Challenged73]

When I was back in high school, I found there's a really good market for vintage motorcycle parts.  As 70BurntOrangeT/A has mentioned, you can also find some parts cars for cheap and really make a killing on cleaning up some of the better parts then selling them for a very nice profit.  I really wish we had more old cars that weren't completely rusted out around WI so I could step up from motorcycles to cars.

[Topcat]

I would go yard hopping looking for parts to re sell but out here it's all foreign cars. Nearest good yards are almost 2 hours away in central valley. Then that's a stab in dark finding something worthy of selling at a small profit.

[Ghost]

I tried whoring myself out to local women.


That didn't work out as well as I'd hoped.

[farmertan]

I'm in the process of putting 50 acres of my land into P.D.R program w/the gov. (property development rights) if and when that goes through then its gun-ho on the cuda.

[JH27N0B]

It's a bit of a dilemma for me right now. My project has been dragging for so long, but last year the guy who is doing it has gotten back in gear.  However I lost my job late last year.  I have a home equity line, and hadn't tapped it yet, so when he asked for money a month or so back I sent a check from that line.  Current interest rate is not much over 2%, so the payments will be minimal, for now.
I've had a lot of good luck in the past flipping some parts that I have some thorough knowledge of.  I mainly have found them on ebay, poorly listed, bad pictures, low buy it now, etc.  I once bought a part for 99 cents and relisted it on ebay a few months later with an accurate description and good pictures and got $295 for it!!
I'm still doing that a little, but its not easy to sell things for a good price now days.
I've probably funded (and swapped) for a large percentage of my parts for my T/A project that way, which is nice!

[flores_57]

I borrowed money from my 401 retirement funds... :nono:nobody tell my wife,she does not know...yet!!!