Amen to that.

The trick is to buy the highest level of "done" you can afford. That'll be more economic than thinking you can save money buying a fixer-upper, with hopes of fixing it in a defined period of time so to get it back on the road to enjoy it. I, for one, learned that is a misconception.

Only those who are themselves craftsmen can bring such cars back from the dead without breaking the bank. Just my opinion.