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    Good morning, finally paid my money and joined for real :)

    Good morning from sunny Surrey, I have been looking at LB for quite some time now and finally getting to the point of seriously looking into everything.

    I know it's a very vague question, but what kind of money are you looking at to complete a build?

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    Re: Good morning, finally paid my money and joined for real :)

    Welcome!

    How long is a piece of string?

    If I admitted what I'd spent on mine so far you'd all think I'l lost the plot! But I have done lots of custom stuff.

    If I were to pull a figure out of the air for a car with a donor engine that didn't have a rebuild and a paint job (not Gel coat) finished to a good standard £40k absolute min all in? I thought mine might cost me about £45k when I started out. Lets just say that figure is well and truly in the rear view mirror

    People will tell you that you can build a GT40 Rep for £55k but speak to those who have build them, and built them to a high standard, and you're looking closer to £90k.

    The details that make a build stand out as top quality can get very expensive. What I'm saying here is that within reason you can set the overall costs by the choices you make.
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    Re: Good morning, finally paid my money and joined for real :)

    I don't think anyone can accurately answer your question unless you were to spell out an exact specification for your car.
    And then they could only answer if they had built the same spec recently.
    Leigh is right, unless you are extremely lucky in picking up a part built at a good price, to buy either current kit new and build any decent spec car £40 k should be considered a minimum.

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    Re: Good morning, finally paid my money and joined for real :)

    any decent spec car £40 k should be considered a minimum.
    - but the good news is that you dont have to spend it all up-front ! Depending on how long you take to build it, the cost can be spread over several years - it also depends on how much your other half is involved in the finances !

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    Re: Good morning, finally paid my money and joined for real :)

    Thanks guys
    Fortunately the other half is my girlfriend, not my wife, so can hide what I spend! Hahahahaha!
    I had a figure of about 45K in mind, so sounds do-able. Might also down grade on my daily, sell my bit of fun (Euro 205 Rallye) and kind of adds up financially ( he says trying to convince himself! )
    I have been looking at donor cars, are any of the 3.2 Alfas suitable? Or are there ones to avoid?
    Another problem is choosing what I want to end up with! I love the madness of the Alitalia liveried cars with all the lamps as well, but also love the fairly simple Red one on the LB site Hmmmmmmm

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    Re: Good morning, finally paid my money and joined for real :)

    It's a good question and encourages a bit of realism.

    Putting aside the question of engine & gearbox, where I guess the price range can go from simply transplanting a £500 donor engine all the way up to whatever the cost of a rebuilt Alfa on ITBs is or even whatever a crate or 2nd hand supercharged Evora engine is, where are the other key points for deciding whether you are doing a cheaper or more expensive build?

    Paint v no paint I guess?
    Upgraded dampers or standard?
    Upgraded brakes or standard?
    Level of interior trim?
    Rally bits or not? (light pod, driving lights, roof scoop, chin spoiler)
    Stradale or GP4 body which may influence the instrument cost?
    Wheel options?
    Tyre options?
    Air con or not?
    DIY build or factory build?
    Others?

    I got into this Stratos thing after seeing the Autocar video review where Steve Sutcliffe gave the impression that you could build your own car for about £30k or the factory could build you one for about £40k. That was in 2013. Not sure how realistic that was even back then (genuine question, I don't know) but it was the main thing that drew me in at the time and led me to believe it could be a fairly cheap way of getting a pretty special car. I'm now older, wiser .... and likely to be much poorer. On the flip side, when you see how much demand outstrips supply (3 year wait for a turnkey car) and the consequential robust 2nd hand prices ("kit cars" selling for more than build costs) then it's not exactly a daft way to spend money.

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