...People are weird.

my otherwise pristine ZHP

Too much work, gonna do this instead.

Fair enough

Fair.

Definitely unable. Buying one of the rarest cars around and then not taking care of it is absolutely a divide by zero for my brain.

...when your the problem.

He may also be saving the new hood for when he decides the daily use is over and wants to return it to original condition.

Why would I spend $1000 to fix this now, and have it happen again, and then have to spend that $1000 over again to fix it when I go to sell it, when I could just pay that $1000 once when I go to sell it and fix all the accumulated damage simultaneously?

I dunno if anything can kill the value of an F40 that much...

Have you heard about “fuck you money”? I have so much money I can afford to daily drive this exotic car and treat it like I would my civic - like shit. I can take the consequences of that and still be ok. Makes more sense now? :)

It doesn’t have to make sense though...

If its about the drive, why an F40? Honest question. I’ve never driven one, but I would find it hard to believe a 30 year old record setter is the best drive money can buy today. I feel like there is more to it than that.

Ok. But that still doesn’t explain the disparity between the car he bought, and his current treatment. Odds are, it took some time to find an F40 to buy in the first place. And it was expensive. And it is not the fastest car by any means today, so it isn’t about track times. If all he wants is a fast track car, why…

I want to talk to this guy, because this doesn’t add up. I’m not saying there isn’t an answer... just that I cannot come up with anything that makes sense:

Not so. For 1964-1967, Olds small blocks were 330ci; and...

The reason people are referring to your 289 here as “not big” is because it is literally a “small block”.

If you waited until you got your first job and bought a car within your means, you should generally be ok from defaulting.

“Send it”: Means the car ain’t the problem, the driver is. You need to push the car harder; it will go faster.

I reread your original post, and I misquoted you on the “none.” Sorry about that.