[alexiskai]

I get that for many people, the work itself is meditative and fulfilling, but if I were going to take on a project that involved substantial bodywork, I'd look for a luxury marque. You end up putting in the same amount of time and money, and the result is more aesthetically pleasing and retains more of the value. It's easy to forget these cars were mass-produced and there are still many thousands of them out there. There's no ROI on essentially hand-building part of the body when there are many others out there that still have more or less the body they left the factory with.